Was the historical Jesus an anarchist?^177Luke 15.3–7; Matthew 12.38–42; Luke 11:29–32; Luke 13.1–9.
Contra Sanders, Jesus and Judaism, pp. 106–113 (cf. Casey, Jesus of
Nazareth, pp. 282–84).
- It is related to the idea in the Hebrew Bible that a sinful Israel
needs to return to God (Isaiah 44.22, 55.7), a common theme, par-
ticularly in traditions concerned with the Day of the Lord (e.g. Joel
2.32) - See Luke 19.1–9; Matthew 19.21, Mark 10.21, Luke 18.22. For
the expectation of restitution see Leviticus 6.1–5, Numbers 5.5–7. - See, for example, Matthew 12.28, Luke 11.20; Matthew 10.34–
36, Luke 12.49–56; Matthew 11.2–6, Luke 7.18–23. - See, for example, Luke 5.32; Matthew 9.13; Matthew 5.21, 27,
33, 39, 44. - H. J. de Jonge, ‘The Historical Jesus’ View of Himself and of His
Mission’, in From Jesus to John, ed. by Martinus de Boer (Sheffield:
JSOT, 1993), pp. 21–37; Theissen and Merz, The Historical Jesus,
pp. 512–567; Wedderburn, Jesus and the Historians, pp. 275–322;
Ben Witherington, The Christology of Jesus (Philadelphia: Fortress,
1990). - For example, Matthew 10.1–5; Mark 3.16–19, 4.10, 6.7, 9.35;
Luke 6.13–16; John 6.67; Acts 1.13, 6.2; 1 Corinthians 15.5. - For example, Luke 10:9–16, Matthew 10:7–16; Luke 12:8–9
and Matthew 12:32–33. - Bakunin, God and the State, p. 33. See Simon Western,
‘Autonomist Leadership in Leaderless Movements: Anarchists
Leading the Way’, Ephemera: Theory & Politics in Organization, 14
(2014), 673–698. - See Richard P. Saller, Personal Patronage Under the Early Empire
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002). - Mark 10.42–44; see also Matthew 20.20–28, Luke 22.24–27;
Matthew 18.1–5, Mark 9.33–37, Luke 9.46–48; see John 13.1–11. - Myers in Van Steenwyk, Holy Anarchist, p. 8.
- 1 Samuel 8.7. 1 Samuel 8.10–18 includes a stinging critique of
the exploitation that results from monarchy.