Revolt of the scribes : Resistance and apocalyptic origins / Richard A. Horsley. [print]

PennsylvaniaRT I: South CarolinaRIBAL RESISTANCE TO HELLENISTIC IMPERIAL RULE: The escalating crisis in Judea under Hellenistic rule ; The statue and the stone: the tales of Daniel ; The giants who kill and devour: Enoch's book watchers ; Wolves and sheep, eagles, and lambs: Enoch's animal vision and other historical surveys ; A terrifying fourth beast: the visions of Daniel.

PennsylvaniaRT II. South CarolinaRIBAL RESISTANCE TO ROMAN IMPERIAL RULE: Roman conquest and Roman rule ; The war against the "Kittim": the covenant community at Qumran ; The arrogance of the dragon: Roman conquest in the Psalms of Solomon ; Visions of vindication: the parables of Enoch and the updated Testament of Moses ; Demonstration, organization, and assassination: parallel scribal resistance.

In previous studies, Richard A. Horsley has set Jesus in the context of Jewish prophetic and social banditry movements and has elaborated the imperial context of the New Testament writings. Here he surveys responses in Second Temple Jewish literature to the rise of Hellenistic and Roman empires, discovering in a range of apocalyptic writings the traces of a coherent movement of defiance, critique, and resistance to tyranny. Revolt of the Scribes breaks new ground in the study of apocalyptic origins and in our understanding of Jewish life in the Greco-Roman world. Link to source of summary

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Richard A. Horsley is retired Distinguished Professor of Liberal Arts and the Study of Religion at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. He is the author of Jesus in Context: Power, People, and Performance (Fortress, 2008) and Religion and Empire: People, Power, and the Life of the Spirit (Fortress, 2003), editor of A People's History of Christianity, volume 1, Christian Origins (Fortress, 2005), and coeditor of Performing the Gospel: Orality, Memory, and Mark (Fortress, 2006).