possibility that Jesus had any associations with the Zealot movement. An important scholar such as Martin Hengel is critical of these repeated attempts to represent Jesus as a political revolutionary. He provides biblical evidence where Jesus’s activities and words are clearly radically different from those of the Zealots. My assessment of the scholarly work on this subject leads me to conclude that Gutiérrez’ position is indefensible. Furthermore, the theological framework liberationists have sought
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