Abstract
Crossan's newest book bases its reconstruction of Jesus on sources such as the Gospel of Thomas, a hypothetically reconstructed ‘Early Q’, and a hypothetical ‘Cross Gospel’ reconstructed out of the Gospel of Peter, Crossan argues that, faced with the ‘brokered empire’ of the Roman world, Jesus initiated a ‘brokerless kingdom’ in which all had equal access to God, Crossan's work in one way, and that of scholars like Helmut Koester and Burton Mack in other ways, form a serious revival of the until-recently moribund Bultmann school of Gospel interpretation.
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