RE335 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Sadducees, Essenes, Pharisees
Document Summary
Jesus had no limits in a commercially oriented society. Jesus the dying saviour : some people reduce his significance to the atoning death on the cross, little interest in ethical teaching and miraculous deeds. Jesus" death on the cross understood as martyrdom. Jesus struggled between flesh and spirit: death = final act of mortification of flesh and triumph of the spirit. Jesus violated the law and disturbed the peace; treated women as people not things. Jesus was a feminist - leonard swindler. Died as a sacrifice to the world for our sins. Study of historical jesus and what his contemporaries thought of him. Passing on of stories of his life enhances aspects while leaving others forgotten. Gospels written in greek, jesus taught in aramaic. Born ~4 bce; spent child hood in nazareth, baptized by john the baptist, executed ~30 ce. Political setting: jesus was born when rome was superior over the mediterranean.
