RS235 Chapter 5: Crossan- CHAPTER 5 No Staff.docx
17 Mar 2015
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Chapter 5 no staff, no sandals, and no knapsack. Weapons of peasants: foot dragging, dissimulation, desertion, false compliance, pilfering, feigned ignorance, slander, arson, sabotage, they fight when threatened or told. Jesus was a mediterranean jewish peasant. challenged mediterranean"s hierarchies, distinctions, and discriminations. Jesus" jewishness is important in terms of the body/ society interaction, the politic-body and body-politic connection. Jesus uses magic, or thaumaturgy, term that upper-class religion uses to denigrate its lower-class counterpart. The resistance of any oppressed people does not begin with revolt. What jesus was doing is located exactly on the borderline between the covert and the overt arts of resistance. Mediterranean groupism would dictate some grouping around jesus if his attack on familial and political communities was to make sense to his audience. Enter a land, if people let you in there houses, east what they give you and heal their sick and tell them that god will help them.
