Jesus, Justice, and the Reign of God A Ministry of Liberation

includes index and biblioraphy

I. The Continuing Quest for the Historical Jesus 1. The Third Quest in Context ..................3 2. Models and methods in the Quest for the historical Jesus ......................34 3. Prophet of the Justice of the Reign of God: An Approach to the Historical Jesus .............47 II. Jesus nazareth : A contextual Approach 4. The search for a usable Context: Biblical Criticism and the Historical Jesus ...........................72 5. The Quest for the Historical Jesus and the Quest for the Historical Galilee: Jesus in the world of Agrarian Societies ....................90 III. Jesus the prophet and the Praxis of the Justice of the Reign of the God: Conflicts in Context 6. Something greater than the the Temple is here: Subverting the Cave of social bandits............................111 7.What is written ? How do you read, The Torah: Debt, Purity, and Social Control ..............144 8. Resistance and conflict : Jesus Healings and Debates ...............168 9. The Temple, the land, and the reing of God............191 IV. Jerusalem, Jerusalem: The Show Trial in Jerusalem 10. The Show trial in Jerusalem : Why? what evil has he Done ...........218 11. A concluding unhistorical Postscript ........247