Face to face-Widerstand im Sinn der Gottesherrschaft. Jesu Wahrnehmung seines sozialen Umfeldes im Spiegel seiner Beispielgeschichten

Instead of reconstructing the social and political conditions in Galilee as a defining background for texts of Jesus – an aspect which has been fiercely debated in bible research – this article asks the question whether it is not in the texts themselves that the influential social and political structures, which existed under Roman rule, are subjects for discussion – and which point of view and which available options for action are developed.