Encounters With Jesus

by Destro, Adriana; Pesce, Mauro; McNeil, Brian

• ISBN13: 9780800698454
• ISBN10: 0800698452
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-12-01
• Publisher: Fortress Pr

Summary

A candid, compelling portrait of the man who has proved so significant-and so controversial-in Western culture, by two of Europe's best known pioneers of the anthropological study of early Christianity. Destro and Pesce bring the fruit of years of scholarship to bear on a radical figure in Roman Galilee, his encounters with others, and the movement those encounters inspired.

Author Biography

Adriana Destro is Professor of Cultural Anthropology at the University of Bologna and the author of numerous books in anthropology and the anthropological study of religion. Mauro Pesce is Professor of History at the University of Bologna and the author of numerous books in New Testament Studies. Together they have authored Come nasce una religion: Antropologia ed esegesi del Vangelo di Giovanni (2000), Antropologia delle origini cristiane, 4th ed. (2008), and, in English, Religion and Culture (2002) and to edited Rituals and Ethics: Patterns of Repentance Judaism, Christianity, Islam (2004).

Table of Contents

Introduction: On Jesus' Lifestyle	p. ix
Lifestyle as the First Message	p. x
The Historical Reliability of the Gospels	p. xii
The Necessity of Research into the Historical Jesus	p. xiv
Jesus on His Landscape: Mental Maps and Real Territories	p. 3
Jesus and His Land	p. 3
Far from the Cities	p. 5
Jesus in Galilee, in Judaea, and outside the Borders	p. 11
Jesus' Attitude toward Jerusalem	p. 16
Jesus on Foot: A Life in Continuous Movement	p. 25
An Identity without Networks	p. 26
Not a Nomad, Not a Traveler, nor Yet a Pilgrim	p. 29
The Code of the Itinerant: Do Not Sow or Reap, Do Not Toil or Spin	p. 33
Walking and the Time of the Itinerant	p. 35
Solitude and Flight	p. 37
Jesus Face to Face: Encounters	p. 41
On an Equal Footing	p. 41
The Encounter with the Baptizer	p. 42
The Followers	p. 48
The Twelve	p. 53
Meetings with Relatives: Closeness and Conflict	p. 57
Friends and Supporters	p. 62
The Women	p. 65
Sinners, Those Possessed by Demons, and the Sick	p. 69
An Array of Adversaries	p. 69
"Rich" and "Poor" among the Addressees of Jesus	p. 71
The Lost Sheep of the House of Israel	p. 72
Jesus' Preference for Direct Encounters	p. 74
Jesus at Table: Eating Together	p. 78
Coming Together to Eat: Building Up Society	p. 78
In the Houses of the Rich	p. 84
Eating along the Way	p. 85
At Table with His Followers	p. 87
At Table with Friends	p. 89
Miracles to Feed the Hungry: The Sign of Abundance	p. 90
Eating Together in the Parables	p. 91
The Symbolic Complexity of Conviviality	p. 94
The Future Banquet	p. 99
Jesus Leaves Home and Is Made at Home with Others	p. 102
Without a House of His Own in the Houses of Others	p. 102
The Variety of Houses: Styles and Relationships	p. 104
A Group without a Place of Its Own	p. 107
The Individual Call	p. 109
The Adult Generation Abandons Home	p. 110
Conflicts among the Members of a Household	p. 116
An Interstitial Strategy	p. 125
Jesus and His Body	p. 128
The Place of Corporality	p. 128
Bodies Procreate: Jesus' Genealogical Position	p. 130
When His Contemporaries Looked at Jesus, What Did They See?	p. 134
Other Looks, Other Appearances	p. 139
The Body Is Taken Prisoner	p. 141
An Inclusive Subject: The Crowd	p. 143
The Body in Danger	p. 148
The Body of Jesus and the Healings	p. 150
Jesus and Emotion: Feelings and Desires	p. 155
How Do We Get to Know the Inner Life of Jesus?	p. 155
The Cultural Meanings of Emotions	p. 155
Jesus' Compassion	p. 157
Anxiety and Sadness	p. 159
Indignation and Anger	p. 161
The Power of Silence	p. 162
The Problems Involved in Leave Taking	p. 163
Will, Desire, Decision	p. 166
"I have come in order to...": Jesus Expresses His Desire and His Interior Passion	p. 168
Conclusion: The Concrete Reality of a Radical Life	p. 170
Notes	p. 177
Bibliography	p. 221
Index of Authors and Names	p. 237
Index of Ancient Texts	p. 242
Index of Subjects	p. 249
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