Liberation of Christmas The Infancy Narratives in Social Context

Name: Liberation of Christmas The Infancy Narratives in Social Context
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ISBN: 9781597525756

ISBN-10: 1597525758

ISBN-13: 9781597525756

Edition: Annotated

Authors: Richard A. Horsley

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Current biblical scholarship tends to treat the nativity narratives as having little historical basis and to see in them illustrations of the particular theologies of Matthew and Luke. Nonbiblical scholarship sees in these narratives only an adaptation of traditional folklore themes relating to the birth of the hero. This leaves the ordinary Christian in a vacuum that the mass media and other commercial interests are only too anxious to fill.'Liberating Christmas' shows that, regardless of whether the nativity narratives are rooted in actual historical situations, they do portray a particular network of social-political relationships. Thus Caesar ruled and taxed peoples, such as the Jews,…

Book details

List price: $29.00
Publisher: Wipf & Stock Publishers
Publication date: 2/14/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 216
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.550