Was the historical Jesus an anarchist?^155- See, for example, John Dominic Crossan, The Historical
Jesus: The Life of a Mediterranean Jewish Peasant (San Francisco:
HarperSanFrancisco, 1991), and Jesus: A Revolutionary Biography (San
Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1994), Richard A. Burridge, Imitating
Jesus: An Inclusive Approach to New Testament Ethics (Grand Rapids:
Eerdmans, 2007) and Marcus Borg, Jesus in Contemporary Scholarship
(London: Continuum, 1994), pp. 97–126. For a trenchant critique
of attempts to present the historical Jesus as “inclusive” see Markus
Bockmuehl, ‘The Trouble with the Inclusive Jesus’, Horizons in Biblical
Theology, 33 (2011), 9–23. - See, for indicative examples, Colleen M. Conway, Behold the
Man: Jesus and Greco-Roman Masculinity (New York: Oxford
University Press, 2008); Anna Runesson, Exegesis in the Making:
Postcolonialism and New Testament Studies (Leiden: Brill, 2010)
and Michael J. Sandford, Poverty, Wealth, and Empire: Jesus and
Postcolonial Criticism (Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2014). - For significant contributions in this area see Jesus Beyond
Nationalism: Constructing the Historical Jesus in a Period of
Cultural Complexity, ed. by Ward Blanton, James G. Crossley and
Halvor Moxnes (London: Equinox, 2010), James G. Crossley, Jesus
in an Age of Terror: Scholarly Projects for a New American Century
(London: Equinox, 2008) and Jesus in an Age of Neoliberalism:
Quests, Scholarship and Ideology (London: Equinox, 2012). - For the most recent, comprehensive statement of this position see
Richard Carrier, On the Historicity of Jesus: Why We Might Have
Reason for Doubt (Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2014). See also
Is This Not the Carpenter?: The Question of the Historicity of the
Figure of Jesus, ed. by Thomas L. Thompson and Thomas S. Verenna
(Sheffield: Equinox, 2012). - See, for example, Maurice Casey, Jesus: Evidence and Argument
or Mythicist Myths? (Bloomsbury T&T Clark, 2014) and Bart D.
Ehrman, Did Jesus Exist?: The Historical Argument for Jesus of
Nazareth (San Francisco: HarperOne, 2012). - See, for example, Craig A. Evans, ‘Jesus in Non-Christian Sources’,
in Studying the Historical Jesus: Evaluations of the State of Current
Research, ed. by Bruce Chilton and Craig A. Evans (Leiden: Brill,
1998), pp. 443–478. See also John Granger Cook, The Interpretation