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The only large-scale critical introduction to Western Marxism for biblical criticism. Roland Boer introduces the core concepts of major figures in the tradition, specifically Althusser, Gramsci, Deleuze and Guattari, Eagleton, Lefebvre, Lukacs, Adorno, Bloch, Negri, Jameson, and Jameson. Throughout, Boer shows how Marxist criticism is relevant to biblical criticism, in terms of approaches to the Bible and in the use of those approaches in the interpretation of specific texts.--Provided by publisher

The covenants -- The legal codes -- Conquest and holy war -- The rule of kings -- Prophets and their audience -- Prophecy and international politics -- Exile -- The priestly kingdom -- The politics of wisdom -- Messianism -- Where were the elders? -- Politics in the shadow

This article undertakes to isolate those stories about Jesus that Paul described as "stumbling blocks to the Jews" of his day from other Jesus stories that circulated in the early churches. It then attempts to discern which implicit claims in such stories would not have been objectionable to most Jews and to explain why. It achieves these objectives through a consideration of predications about God in some of the earliest sections of Jewish liturgy that, though expressed in psalmodic idioms, are drawn ultimately from Biblical narratives. Finally, it suggests why the overwhelming majority of first-century Jews hearing such stories would not have felt compelled to become Christians.