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- Title
Nazareth's Rebellious Son: Deviance and Downward Mobility in the Galilean Jesus Movement.
- Authors
Talbott, Rick F.
- Abstract
Using social-scientific criticism, I imagine that Jesus' family and village elders labeled him a "rebellious son" because his kingdom of God agenda threatened their domestic economy and the patriarchal power relations that sustained it. Consequently, Jesus left Nazareth and initiated a movement among Galilean fishing villages that had marked economic impact on a variety of Galileans. The Jesus movement fostered several economic dynamics including exacerbating the downward mobility of peasants alienated from their families, these very families, and even some "wealthy" persons associated with the movement. Passages from Q suggest that new fictive-kin groups quickly emerged and developed their own patron-client economy. By meeting the basic needs of its members, this household-based domestic economy also created a safety-net for its disenfranchised and honored poor. The Jesus movement represented one of the many sub-systems within first-century Galilee, and—with some modification—it resembled later urban Christian households, especially those characteristic of Paul and Luke-Acts.
- Subjects
JESUS movement (Ancient Israel); DOWNWARD mobility (Social sciences); JESUS Christ -- Family; HOME economics; ECONOMIC impact
- Publication
Biblical Theology Bulletin, 2008, Vol 38, Issue 3, p99
- ISSN
0146-1079
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/01461079080380030201