Borg, Marcus J.2012-01-192012-01-191995Borg, MJ 1995, 'Jesus and politics in contemporary scholarship', HTS Teologiese Studies/ Theological Studies, vol. 51, no. 4, pp. 962-995.0259-9422 (print)http://hdl.handle.net/2263/17824Spine cut of Journal binding and pages scanned on flatbed EPSON Expression 10000 XL; 400dpi; text/lineart - black and white - stored to Tiff Derivation: Abbyy Fine Reader v.9 work with PNG-format (black and white); Photoshop CS3; Adobe Acrobat v.9 Web display format PDFUntil recently, and for a variety of reasons, most historical Jesus scholarship has typically seen Jesus as essentially non-political. Recently, this has begun to change, to a large extent because of the fuller description of the social world of Jesus made possible by the use of interdisciplinary models and insights. Seen within the context of a social world described as a peasant, patriarchal and purity society, many of the Jesus traditions reflect both a sharp critique of society and advocacy of an alternative social vision. Jesus' action in the temple (including E P Sanders view of it) is treated as a case study of the difference made by an interdisciplinary understanding of the social context of Jesus' public activity.34 pagesPDFenFaculty of Theology, University of PretoriaHistorical JesusJesus Christ -- Political and social viewsJesus Christ -- ConflictsJesus Christ -- CharacterJesus Christ -- BiographyArticle