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6 - A ‘Fundamentally Unreliable Adoration’: ‘Jewishness’ and the Multicultural Jesus

from Part II - Jesus in an Age of Neoliberalism

James G. Crossley
James G. Crossley
Affiliation:
University of Sheffield
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Summary

Another of his disciples said to him, ‘Lord, first let me go and bury my father.’ But Jesus said to him, ‘Follow me, and let the dead bury their own dead.’

(Mt. 8:21–22//Lk. 9:59–60)

There are times when racial thought shuns the vile rhetoric of the demagogue in favor of the dignified discourse of the poet and the intellectual… This form of racial thinking appears in discourse that is decidedly gentle and in rhetoric that can tend towards the inspirational… The aesthetic ideology is more than capable of prospering in the rarefied air of postmodern criticism.

– Shawn Kelley

Tolerance arises at the dusk of Enlightenment Man not to relieve us of the problem of difference but to inscribe its power and permanence.

– Wendy Brown

Introduction

As we have just seen, one dangerous idea in historical Jesus studies is Jesus the Jew, or, rather, the ‘problem’ of Jesus being as Jewish as the Judaism constructed by scholarship, and how this is compensated in scholarship by what I would call a ‘Jewish…but not that Jewish’ Jesus. Many historical Jesus scholars will now emphasize how Jewish their Jesus is, tell us what constituted Jewish identity in the first century, before having their Jesus transcend this Jewish identity, or at least do something new and unparalleled either generally or on some specific (and often crucial) issue, typically involving the Torah and/or Temple.

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Jesus in an Age of Neoliberalism
Quests, Scholarship and Ideology
 , pp. 105 - 132
Publisher: Acumen Publishing
Print publication year: 2012

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