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Article: Nazareth's rebellious son: deviance and downward mobility in the Galilean Jesus movement.(Company overview)
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- Biblical Theology Bulletin
- Article date:
- September 22, 2008
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Abstract
Using social-scientific criticism, I imagine that Jesus' family and village eiders labeled him a "rebellious son" because his kingdom of God agenda threatened their domestic economy and the patriarchal power relations that sustained it. Consequently, Jesus left Nazareth and initiated a movement among Galilean fishing villages that had marked economic impact on a variety of Galileans. The Jesus movement fostered several economic dynamics including exacerbating the downward mobility of peasants alienated from their families, these very families, and even some "wealthy" persons associated with the movement. Passages from Q suggest that new fictive-kin ...