Hidden Transcripts and the Arts of Resistance: Applying the Work of James C. Scott to Jesus and Paul

Publisher Marketing: Scott is a political scientist who insists that politics cannot be understood apart from culture and religion. He has done fieldwork in Malaysian villages and observed people subject to domination and exploitative political and economic relations. Here scholars of religion and the Bible apply his findings to the understanding of Jesus and Paul. Amo Contributor Bio:  Horsley, Richard A Richard A. Horsley is Distinguished Professor of Liberal Arts and the Study of Religion at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. He is a prolific author with twenty New Testament studies to his credit, including "Scribes, Visionaries, and the Politics of Second Temple Judea", published by WJK.