RS235 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Lower Galilee, Sepphoris, Egalitarianism
17 Mar 2015
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Epilogue from jesus to christ the voices that speak to us from antiquity are overwhelmingly those of the cultured few, the elites. There are voiceless masses, are almost lost to historical view, because of their illiteracy and localism. The one as yet unknown he comes as yet unknown into a hamlet of lower galilee. But the next day he leaves them, and now they wonder aloud about a divine kingdom with no respect for proper protocols a kingdom, as he had said, not just for the poor, like themselves, but for the destitute. Others say that the worst and most powerful demons are found not in small villages but in certain cities. Maybe, they say, that was where the exorcised demon went to sepphoris or tiberias, or even jerusalem, or maybe to rome itself, where its arrival would hardly be noticed amid so many others already in residence.
