Revolt of the Scribes Wesley W. Ellis and numerous other documents

and numerous other documents

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especially in the face of Catholicism's reinvention in the Early Modern

the contributors to this volume include Paul-Alain Beaulieu

Revolt of the Scribes Wesley W. Ellis and numerous other documentsIn previous studies, Richard A. Horsley has set Jesus in the context of Jewish prophetic and social banditry movements and has elaborated the imperial context of the New Testament writings. Here he surveys responses in Second Temple Jewish literature to the rise of Hellenistic and Roman empires, discovering in a range of apocalyptic writings the traces of a coherent movement of defiance, critique, and resistance to tyranny. Revolt of the Scribes