Jesus and Empire: An Analysis of Roman Imperialism
This two page undergraduate paper examines the book, "Jesus and Empire: The Kingdom of God and the New World Disorder", in which author Richard Horsley presents a persuasive case for interpreting Jesus and the proto-Christian emergence as a communal movement of families and traditional villages which opposed the Roman Empire and its regional puppet rulers. Horsley contends that Jesus should be defined in these terms and insists that Jesus can be best understood in a corporate rather than an individual context
