MARY CONWAY revels in a powerful reminder that human lives are not defined by physical perfection
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Artisan rural working-class Messiah
PAUL SIMON applauds a daring, if sketchy, work that bridges the divide between Marxists and people of faith
CLASS CONFLICT: Herodian massive building schemes at Sepphoris, above, and Tiberias caused widespread economic dislocations and displacements (ethnic cleansing?). Jesus, described as tekton/builder - not a carpenter - might have worked at Sepphoris which was only five kilometers from Nazareth
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PAUL DONOVAN recommends the fine performances in this account of the pre-war meeting between the US president and the British king
TECLYN AROD relishes an intimate celebration of jazz improvisation that mixes local and national musicians
The missing sister, the vengeful WAG, cruise ship claustrophobia, and reanimated Avengers
Three great releases of lost concerts by Duke Ellington Orchestra, John Taylor & Stan Sulzman, and Joe Henderson
To rescue Kahlo from the clutches of the corporate art market, we need to acknowledge the overt and covert political dimensions of the work, demands GAVIN O’TOOLE
Jesus: A Life in Class Conflict,
by James Crossley and Robert J Myles, Zer0 Books, £19.99
JESUS: A Life in Class Conflict provides an important refocusing and reprioritising of earlier Scriptural studies as seen through the lens of historical materialist analysis.
Although containing little original research, authors James Crossley and Robert J Myles have painstakingly examined many of the mainstream interpretations of the life, teachings and execution of Jesus.
They have found most to be wanting, if not serious distortions predicated upon the writers’ own contemporary class interests, including revered Biblical scholars such as EP Sanders.
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