Was the historical Jesus an anarchist?^157- James D G. Dunn, ‘Jesus Tradition in Paul’, in Studying the
Historical Jesus: Evaluations of the State of Current Research, ed. by
Bruce Chilton and Craig A Evans (Leiden: Brill, 1994), pp. 155–178. - Christoyannopoulos, Christian Anarchism, pp. 43–81.
- See, for example, Hans Dieter Betz and Adela Yarbro Collins,
The Sermon on the Mount: A Commentary on the Sermon on the
Mount, Including the Sermon on the Plain (Matthew: 5:3–7:27
and Luke 6:20–49) (Minneapolis: Augsburg Fortress, 1995); W. D.
Davies and D. C. Allison, A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on
the Gospel According to Saint Matthew. Volume I. Introduction and
Commentary on Matthew I-VII (Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1988),
pp. 429–731; Ulrich Luz, Matthew 1–7: a Commentary, 2nd edn
(Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2007). - Huub van de Sandt and Jürgen K. Zangenberg, Matthew, James,
and Didache: Three Related Documents in Their Jewish and Christian
Settings (Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2008); Matthew
and his Christian Contemporaries, ed. by David C. Sim and Boris
Repschinski (Edinburgh: T&T Clark, 2008). It is no surprise that
Tolstoy was keen on the Didache which was only rediscovered in his
lifetime. See E. B. Greenwood, ‘Tolstoy and Religion’, in New Essays
on Tolstoy, ed. Malcolm Jones (Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 1978), pp. 149–74 (p. 166). - See, for example, Leif E. Vaage, ‘Beyond Nationalism: Jesus the
“Holy Anarchist”? : the Cynic Jesus as Eternal Recurrence of the
Repressed’, in Jesus Beyond Nationalism: Constructing the Historical
Jesus in a Period of Cultural Complexity, ed. by Halvor Moxnes,
Ward Blanton and James G. Crossley (London: Equinox, 2009),
pp. 79–95. - Although I am not aware of Ched Myers identifying himself as a
Christian anarchist, his commentary on Mark’s gospel, Binding the
Strong Man: A Political Reading of Mark’s Story of Jesus (Maryknoll:
Orbis Books, 1988), has been extremely influential on a number of
contemporary Christian anarchists (Christoyannopoulos, Christian
Anarchism, pp. 39–40), and in the supportive preface that he recently
wrote to Van Steenwyk’s primer on Christian anarchism he endorses
the notion that the Bible contains “anarchist tendencies” (That Holy
Anarchist: Reflections on Christianity & Anarchism [Minneapolis: