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Jesus & Utopia

Looking for the Kingdom of God in the Roman World

By: Mary Ann Beavis (Contribution by)

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Paperback | 14 November 2006

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Scholarship on the historical Jesus and, now, on the "Jesus movement" generally divides into separate camps around two sticky questions: was Jesus an apocalyptic prophet and was the movement around him political, that is nationalistic or revolutionary? Mary Ann Beavis moves the study of the historical Jesus in a dramatic new direction as she highlights the context of ancient utopian thought and utopian communities, drawing particularly on the Essene community and Philo's discussion of the Therapeutae, and argues that only ancient utopian thought accounts for the lack of explicit political echoes in Jesus' message of the kingdom of God.

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Abbreviations	p. vii
Introduction: Ancient Utopias, Jesus, and the Kingdom of God	p. 1
Ancient, Classical, and Hellenistic Utopias	p. 9
Biblical Utopias: From Eden to the Kingdom of God	p. 29
Ideal Communities in Early Judaism: Essenes, Therapeutai, Havurah	p. 53
Jesus and the Kingdom of God in Biblical Scholarship	p. 71
Jesus' Preaching of the Kingdom of God in Utopian Context	p. 85
Conclusion: From Basileia to Ekklesia	p. 103
Notes	p. 109
Bibliography	p. 141
Index of Names and Subjects	p. 155
Index of Scripture Citations	p. 163
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