Jesus: A Life in Class Conflict

What made the Jesus movement tick? By situating the life of Jesus of Nazareth in the turbulent troubles of first-century Palestine, Crossley and Myles give a thrilling historical-materialist take on t…

If you like book Jesus: A Life in Class Conflict here is the list of books you may also like

Buy this book on Amazon

Similar books (20)

Stealing Home: Los Angeles, the Dodgers, and the Lives Caught in Between

A story about baseball, family, the American Dream, and the fight to turn Los Angeles into a big league city.
Dodger Stadium is an American icon. But the story of how it came to be goes far beyond …
Buy this book on Amazon
The Cross and the Lynching Tree

The cross and the lynching tree are the two most emotionally charged symbols in the history of the African American community. In this powerful work, theologian James H. Cone explores these symbols an…
Buy this book on Amazon
Das Kapital

Das Kapital, Karl Marx's seminal work, is the book that above all others formed the twentieth century. From Kapital sprung the economic and political systems that at one time dominated half the earth …
Buy this book on Amazon
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life

For the last twenty years, George Saunders has been teaching a class on the Russian short story to his MFA students at Syracuse University. In A Swim in a Pond in the Rain, he shares a version of that…
Buy this book on Amazon
Among the Bros: A Fraternity Crime Story

Buy this book on Amazon
China's Revolution and the Quest for a Socialist Future

Buy this book on Amazon
Historical Jesus: What Can We Know and How Can We Know It?

Buy this book on Amazon
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

The portrayal of Stephen Dedalus's Dublin childhood and youth, his quest for identity through art and his gradual emancipation from the claims of family, religion and Ireland itself, is also an obliqu…
Buy this book on Amazon
How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

The decisiveness of the short period of colonialism and its negative consequences for Africa spring mainly from the fact that Africa lost power. Power is the ultimate determinant in human society, bei…
Buy this book on Amazon
The Bonehunters (Malazan Book of the Fallen, #6)

The Seven Cities Rebellion has been crushed. Sha'ik is dead. One last rebel force remains, holed up in the city of Y'Ghatan and under the fanatical command of Leoman of the Flails. The prospect of lay…
Buy this book on Amazon
Inferno

Professor Esolen's translation of Dante's Inferno is the best one I have seen, for two reasons. His decision to use unrhymed blank verse allows him to come nearly as close to the meaning of the origin…
Buy this book on Amazon
The Lesser Devil (The Sun Eater, #1.5)

CAN THE YOUNGEST SON OF A NOBLE HOUSE SAVE HIS FAMILY FROM A PLOT GENERATIONS IN THE MAKING? Crispin Marlowe grew up in his brother’s shadow, but Hadrian is gone, and his grandmother—the duchess of De…
Buy this book on Amazon
The Soft Machine (The Nova Trilogy #1)

In Naked Lunch, William S. Burroughs revealed his genius. In The Soft Machine he begins an adventure that will take us even further into the dark recesses of his imagination, a region where nothing is…
Buy this book on Amazon
Howling Dark (Sun Eater, #2)

The second novel of the galaxy-spanning Sun Eater series merges the best of space opera and epic fantasy, as Hadrian Marlowe continues down a path that can only end in fire.

Hadrian Marlowe is lost.

Fo…
Buy this book on Amazon
Midnight Tides (Malazan Book of the Fallen, #5)

After decades of warfare, the five tribes of the Tiste Edur are united under the implacable rule of the Warlock King of the Hiroth. But the price of peace is a pact with a hidden power whose motives m…
Buy this book on Amazon
Men in the Sun and Other Palestinian Stories

This collection of important stories by novelist, journalist, teacher, and Palestinian activist Ghassan Kanafani includes the stunning novella Men in the Sun (1962), the basis of the movie The Dupes (…
Buy this book on Amazon
When We Cease to Understand the World

One of The New York Times Book Review ’s 10 Best Books of 2021

Shortlisted for the 2021 International Booker Prize and the 2021 National Book Award for Translated Literature

A fictional examination of t…
Buy this book on Amazon
The Cost of Discipleship

One of the most important theologians of the twentieth century illuminates the relationship between ourselves and the teachings of Jesus in this classic text on ethics, humanism, and civic duty.

What c…
Buy this book on Amazon
This Nonviolent Stuff'll Get You Killed: How Guns Made the Civil Rights Movement Possible

Visiting Martin Luther King Jr. at the peak of the Montgomery, Alabama bus boycott, journalist William Worthy almost sat on a loaded pistol. “Just for self defense,” King assured him. It was not the o…
Buy this book on Amazon
Saint Paul: The Foundation of Universalism

Buy this book on Amazon

Jesus: A Life in Class Conflict

Similar books (20)

Historical Jesus: What Can We Know and How Can We Know It?