Alan Kirk

Jesus, the Temple, and Early Christian Memory

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“Scott Brevard’s analysis breaks essential new ground in its attention to the most obvious yet so far completely neglected ‘site of memory’ in the study of Christian origins: the Jerusalem Temple. Theoretically grounded and carefully reasoned, this work will open up a new, fertile area for scholarly enquiry.”

The Pharisees, Jesus, and the Politics of Roman Palestine, Volume 2

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“Richard Horsley’s decades-long assault on the exhausted theological/biblical studies approaches that still dominate gospel scholarship comes to its full force in this volume, which shows that the gospel materials as they stand exist with minimal ‘Christian’ theological overlay in the political, economic, media, and narrative memory world of Palestinian Judaism. Horsley’s case for the Gospels’ clear memory representation of Jesus as a prophet mobilizing a movement for covenant justice, a struggle culminating in his martyrdom, receives here its most thorough grounding ever, and it will be impossible to dismiss.”