Oakman, D.E. - POLITICAL AIMS OF JESUS - Paperback VDAY Rather than tumbling into depression

Rather than tumbling into depression

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Oakman, D.E. - POLITICAL AIMS OF JESUS - Paperback VDAY Rather than tumbling into depressionDouglas E. Oakman, Associate Professor of Religion at Pacific Lutheran University "Amid competing portrayals of the "cynic Jesus," the "peasant Jesus," and the "apocalyptic Jesus," the "political Jesus" remains a marginal figure. Douglas E. Oakman argues that advances in our social scientific understanding of the political economy of Roman Galilee, as well as advances in the so called "Third Quest" for the historical Jesus, warrant a revivaland a