intellectuals,21 her own rhetoric and style remains stubbornly within the style of American upper-class, abstract-concept-loving elites. If Jesus and the Politics of Interpretation is a public intellectual book, I know few who could read it without first reading a series of preliminary studies in the abstract rhetoric of hermeneutics, political theory, and historical-Jesus studies. (2) Her kyriarchal paradigm for reading the Gospels and earliest Christianity remains an example of anti-Judaism and