The objective of this study is to investigate if the historical Jesus was a tax resister and what the motives may have been for that. The study presents a survey of the ancient Galilean economy, with a focus on the taxes paid by the general population, and looks at ancient tax resistance movements in the Galilean community and nearby. Three gospel texts containing accusations of Jesus for tax resistance are analyzed in detail. The study shows that it is reasonable to suggest that the historical Jesus resisted the payment of taxes to the Roman (and possibly Herodian) authorities, based on that Jesus sympathized with the same agendas as the fourth philosophy did, and that Jesus had a compassion for the peasants who lived under an exploiting t...
I examine the debate over the first peacetime income tax in the United States in 1894 to investigate...
19th-century attempts to reconstruct the historical Jesus often featured the theory of a “Galilean c...
Was the transgression of fiscal laws sinful? Since the middle ages theologians, following Aquinas’ f...
As many ancient sources demonstrate, tax-collectors were not well-regarded in antiquity, and thus th...
This work deals with tax collectors in the Gospels. In the first part, tax collectors at the time of...
In this book, Fabian E. Udoh offers an exhaustive study of all the sources relating to taxation in R...
More than two thousand years after his death the words and deeds of Jesus of Nazareth are still proc...
Do Jesus's words in Mt 22,21 mean that Christians are obliged to pay taxes? This thesis aims to answ...
Thesis (M.Th.)-University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg, 1999Taxation was one of the crucial issues fac...
“Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s. ” There is har...
This study argues for the historical existence of Jesus of Nazareth as a radical Jewish pacifist who...
Jesus proclaimed the kingdom of God. The principle of general reciprocity took centre stage. The sys...
Was Jesus in any sense politically involved in the social and cultural activities of his day? The an...
This dissertation concerns the ideological project of the Sayings Gospel Q, a written source for the...
All Jewish religious teachers wanted sinners to repent; how one achieves this was disputed, as was J...
I examine the debate over the first peacetime income tax in the United States in 1894 to investigate...
19th-century attempts to reconstruct the historical Jesus often featured the theory of a “Galilean c...
Was the transgression of fiscal laws sinful? Since the middle ages theologians, following Aquinas’ f...
As many ancient sources demonstrate, tax-collectors were not well-regarded in antiquity, and thus th...
This work deals with tax collectors in the Gospels. In the first part, tax collectors at the time of...
In this book, Fabian E. Udoh offers an exhaustive study of all the sources relating to taxation in R...
More than two thousand years after his death the words and deeds of Jesus of Nazareth are still proc...
Do Jesus's words in Mt 22,21 mean that Christians are obliged to pay taxes? This thesis aims to answ...
Thesis (M.Th.)-University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg, 1999Taxation was one of the crucial issues fac...
“Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s. ” There is har...
This study argues for the historical existence of Jesus of Nazareth as a radical Jewish pacifist who...
Jesus proclaimed the kingdom of God. The principle of general reciprocity took centre stage. The sys...
Was Jesus in any sense politically involved in the social and cultural activities of his day? The an...
This dissertation concerns the ideological project of the Sayings Gospel Q, a written source for the...
All Jewish religious teachers wanted sinners to repent; how one achieves this was disputed, as was J...
I examine the debate over the first peacetime income tax in the United States in 1894 to investigate...
19th-century attempts to reconstruct the historical Jesus often featured the theory of a “Galilean c...
Was the transgression of fiscal laws sinful? Since the middle ages theologians, following Aquinas’ f...