176 Essays in Anarchism and Religion: Volume 1
8.11, Luke 13.29 may not be as self-evidently universal as it is often
assumed, as Allison quite rightly notes (‘Who Will Come from East
and West? Observations on Matt. 8.11–12 = Luke 13.28–29’, Irish
Biblical Studies, 11 [1989], 158–170) but the implication is certain-
ly there. See Michael F. Bird, ‘Who Comes from the East and the
West? Luke 13.28–29/Matt 8.11–12 and the Historical Jesus’, New
Testament Studies, 52 (2006), 441–457.
- For cosmopolitanism see A. A. Long, ‘The Concept of the
Cosmopolitan in Greek & Roman Thought’, Daedalus, 137 (2008),
50–58; Catherine Lu, ‘The One and Many Faces of Cosmopolitanism’,
Journal of Political Philosophy, 8 (2000), 244–267. - Carl Levy, ‘Anarchism and Cosmopolitanism’, Journal of
Political Ideologies, 16 (2011), 265–278. - See, for example, Matthew 22.16, Mark 12.14, Luke 20.21;
Matthew 7.21, Luke 6.46. Jesus’ initial silence when questioned by
the high priest (Matthew 26.63, Mark 14.61), Herod (Luke 23.9),
and Pilate (Matthew 27.11–14, Mark 15.1–4, Luke 23.2–5) could be
interpreted as deliberately insolent. See also the exchange in Matthew
21.23–27, Mark 11:27–33, Luke 20.1–8. - Such impartiality is regarded as characteristic of God in the bib-
lical tradition (e.g. Leviticus 19.15 cf. Acts 10.34, Rom. 2.11) and
appears to be particularly associated with the rule of God in the New
Testament (Matthew 5.45; cf. also Matthew 5.44, Luke 6.27, 35;
Matthew 6.14, Luke 11:4). - For understanding the implications of departing from cultural ex-
pectations of deference and the problems of “face” it would raise, see
Penelope Brown and Stephen C. Levinson, Politeness: Some Universals
in Language Usage (Cambridge University Press, 1987). See also
Richard Bauman, Let Your Words Be Few: Symbolism of Speaking and
Silence Among Seventeenth-century Quakers (Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 1983). - Luke 8.3; Matthew 9.9–13, Mark 2.13–17, Luke 5.27–32; Luke
19.2; Matthew 8.5, Luke 7.2. - Bockmuehl, ‘Inclusive Jesus’, p. 14.
- See, for example, Casey, Jesus of Nazareth, p. 200. See Matthew
4.17, Mark 1.15; Mark 6.7, 12; Luke 15.11–32; Matthew 18.10–14,