Bible Review

Dale Allison, Jesus of Nazareth, Millenarian Prophet (Minneapolis: Fortress, 1998).

Stephen J. Patterson, “The End of Apocalypse: Rethinking the Eschatological Jesus,” Theology Today 52 (1995), pp. 29-48; reprinted as ch. 5: “The Empire of God Is Now,” in Patterson, The God of Jesus (Harrisburg: Trinity, 1998), pp. 163-184.

Borg, “A Temperate Case for a Non-Eschatological Jesus,” was published originally in Forum 2 (1981), pp. 81-102; reprinted in Borg, Jesus and Contemporary Scholarship, pp. 47-68.

Schweitzer, The Quest of the Historical Jesus.

Bruce Malina, The Social Gospel of Jesus (Minneapolis: Fortress, 2001).

Most have been introduced to this work by Bruce Malina’s The New Testament World: Insights from Cultural Anthropology (Louisville: W/JKP, 1981).

Kathleen Corley, Women and the Historical Jesus (Santa Rosa, CA: Polebridge, 2002).

Judith Plaskow, “Anti-Judaism in Christian Feminist Interpretation,” in Schüssler Fiorenza, ed., Searching the Scriptures (New York: Crossroad, 1993), vol. 1, pp. 117-129.

Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza, “The Basileia Vision of Jesus as the Praxis of Inclusive Wholeness,” in In Memory of Her (New York: Crossroad, 1983), pp. 118-130.

The best-known examples of Christian/Cynic rapprochement, Peregrinus (second century C.E.) and Maximus (fourth century C.E.) are discussed by D.R. Dudley, A History of Cynicism (London: Methuen, 1937) pp. 170-182 and 203-207, respectively.