{"id":16097,"date":"2026-03-28T13:30:44","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T19:30:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theway.davisinterests.com\/wp\/?p=16097"},"modified":"2026-03-28T13:30:46","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T19:30:46","slug":"crossan-fuller-lecture-series-on-israel-and-rome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theway.davisinterests.com\/wp\/crossan-fuller-lecture-series-on-israel-and-rome\/","title":{"rendered":"Crossan &amp; Fuller &#8211; Lecture series on Israel and Rome"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/BYT9jCEnfbP8XNtnmE7cJ0LtyHqGqctJpwg_bBcAB0Z3It1a6ZmRJ8X-ETqZnKLhkSVggjTz49T1dUkvd6Als5UbUrgLQ81rcb2r=w225\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Week 01<br>ISRAEL &amp; ROME<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Livestream QnA:<\/strong> Tuesday, February 24th (10am PT \/ 1pm ET)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>How the Romanization of Israel resulted in both Violent Rebellion &amp; Nonviolent Resistance<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Objective:<\/strong> Establish the political matrix of Jesus&#8217; world through historical reconstruction. We will examine&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The process of Romanization in first-century Israel<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The spectrum of Jewish responses\u2014from violent rebellion to nonviolent resistance<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The historical evidence for where Jesus and his movement fit within this landscape<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/gQ0bLUgFes1n4ofAtkouDSnHMM4CrADjxA3Zz24zB3vB7-fHWFlZSbTea34AQ4f0ZLJqoes2VLPMa2q5pkB9zlYPtzCQV2BbMA=w225\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Week 02<br>BAPTISM &amp; JORDAN<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Livestream QnA:<\/strong> Tuesday, March 3rd (10am PT \/ 1pm ET)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>How John&#8217;s &#8220;baptism&#8221; was so distinctive that he was nicknamed &#8220;Baptist&#8221; by both Josephus and Mark<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Objective:<\/strong> Examine what history tells us about John&#8217;s movement and Jesus&#8217; participation in it. We will examine&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>What made John&#8217;s baptism distinctive enough to become his defining title<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The convergent historical evidence from Josephus and the Gospels<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>How Jesus&#8217; emergence from this movement shaped his own mission and message<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/HtSb92YWiG06flLqYF-PXUr5_yWBPJflkinm2mBkK3qiJEuiV4Sv1LGzkAj5NpljxRUAKHpnoTR6fZcGPP4r3ENhLG9pkwTZTZM=w225\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Week 03<br>TRADITION &amp; TRACTION<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Livestream QnA:<\/strong> Tuesday, March 10th (10am PT \/ 1pm ET)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>How the biblical vision of distributive justice got socio-political traction from Antipas&#8217; lake enclosure<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Objective:<\/strong> Discover how historical circumstances gave ancient prophetic traditions urgent new relevance. We will examine&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The economic and social impact of Antipas&#8217; commercialization of the lake<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Israel&#8217;s deep biblical tradition of distributive justice<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>How imperial policy inadvertently created the conditions for Jesus&#8217; message to resonate\u2014then and now<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/soI7YGoQy0dlJDw_guUteC9Iq7refXZJOx3sNA50AsOHOIcGaANiRh9XIwxJqdGrLviDGvZAI3gDccxx13cK1zKMHn1LTCp40Ec=w225\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Week 04<br>MEDIUM &amp; MESSAGE<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Livestream QnA:<\/strong> Tuesday, March 17th (10am PT \/ 1pm ET)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>How Jesus&#8217; Parables were a Participatory Pedagogy for a Participatory Divine Rule on Earth<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Objective:<\/strong> Understand the inseparable relationship between <em>how<\/em> Jesus taught and <em>what<\/em> Jesus taught. We will examine&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The parable as a distinctive and deliberate pedagogical form<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>How participatory teaching embodies and enacts participatory divine rule<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Dom&#8217;s mature reflection on parables fifty years after the book that started it all<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Week 01ISRAEL &amp; ROME Livestream QnA: Tuesday, February 24th (10am PT \/ 1pm ET) How the Romanization of Israel resulted in both Violent Rebellion &amp; Nonviolent Resistance Objective: Establish the political matrix of Jesus&#8217; world through historical reconstruction. We will examine&#8230; Week 02BAPTISM &amp; JORDAN Livestream QnA: Tuesday, March 3rd (10am PT \/ 1pm ET) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[131],"tags":[97,368],"class_list":["post-16097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biblescholarship","tag-jesus","tag-rome"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theway.davisinterests.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theway.davisinterests.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theway.davisinterests.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theway.davisinterests.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theway.davisinterests.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16097"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theway.davisinterests.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16097\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16098,"href":"https:\/\/theway.davisinterests.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16097\/revisions\/16098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theway.davisinterests.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theway.davisinterests.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theway.davisinterests.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}