Jesus and the Village Scribes Nigel Forde Only recently has the field

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Jesus and the Village Scribes Nigel Forde Only recently has the fieldThis volume challenges Gerd Theissen's dominant thesis of "wandering radicals" as the earliest spreaders of the Jesus tradition. Several conclusions emerge: (1) the textual evidence for the "wandering radicals" hypothesis is not tenable and it must be replaced with one that more closely comports with the evidence: (2) the immediate context of the Jesus movement, and of Q in particular, is the socio economic crisis in Galilee under the Romans; and (3)