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The Gospels in Context: Social and Political History in the Synoptic Tradition is unavailable, but you can change that!

This pioneering investigation of social and political history illuminates the prehistory of the Synoptic texts from their beginnings up to the writing of the Gospels. Theissen focuses on Galilee, Judea, and beyond Palestine, with their historical crises under Caligula (39–41 C.E.) and in the Jewish War (66–74 C.E.). He is able to distinguish between the bearers of tradition—common people,...

the vicinity (περὶ Τύρον καὶ Σιδῶνα).20 This restriction to the countryside is all the more astonishing because, at the time when the synoptic tradition was being shaped and the Gospels written, there was already a Christian community in Tyre (cf. Acts 21:3–6), and it would have been natural either to connect Jesus with the city or to associate the residents of the city with Jesus. The restriction of Jesus to the rural area may thus correspond to the real pre-Easter situation. What we can know
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