https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/f/jesus-product-class-struggle-galilee
The Jesus movement presented itself as a vanguard millenarian party, custodians of a new theocracy serving the interests of the peasantry.
Jesus did vanguardism, smh.
Oh Jesus, what did they do to you, they turned you from Antifa Christ into Buddy Christ, my boy.
I don’t remember who said it (might of been on here?), but I agree more with the take that the movement Jesus was part of is probably better understand as analogous to a modern liberal/reformist movement which becomes more preeminent once the more radical, violent Jewish groups are crushed with the defeat of the Maccabees in 37BCE.
The comparison works on a lot of levels, especially since Christianity was completely coopted by the Roman state once the movement picked up steam.
Jesus telling the compradors who sold out Judea to the Romans to gtfo
