Endnote 12 – Why Search for the Historical Jesus?

Unfortunately, this holds true of the otherwise intriguing book by Richard A. Horsley, Jesus and the Spiral of Violence, Popular Jewish Resistance in Roman Palestine (San. Francisco: Harper & Row, 1987); see, e.g., his forced interpretation of the pericope on paying the coin of tribute to Caesar (Mark 12:13–17) on pp. 306–317. More satisfying is the book he coauthored with John S. Hanson, Bandits, Prophets, and Messiahs: Popular Movements at the Time of Jesus (Minneapolis, MN: Winston, 1985).