Richard A. Horsley was the Distinguished Professor of Liberal Arts and the Study of Religion at the University of Massachusetts Boston until his retirement in 2007.
207–208): The focal concern of the kingdom of God in Jesus’ preaching and practice, however, is the liberation and welfare of the people.
Jesus’ understanding of the "kingdom of God" is similar in its broader perspective to the confident hopes expressed in then-contemporary Jewish apocalyptic literature.
“'Apiru and Cossacks: A Comparative Analysis of Social Form and Historical Role.” Pages 3-26 in Religion, Literature, and Society in Ancient Israel, Formative Christianity and Judaism.
“Bandits, Messiahs, and Longshoremen: Popular Unrest in Galilee around the Time of Jesus.” Pages 183-99 in Society of Biblical Literature 1988 Seminar Papers.
“Questions about Redactional Strata and the Social Relations Reflected in Q.” Pages 186-203 in Society of Biblical Literature 1989 Seminar Papers.
Repr., Richard A. Horsley and Patrick Tiller, pages 191-206 in After Apocalyptic and Wisdom: Rethinking Texts in Context.
“Response to Walter Wink, ‘Neither Passivity nor Violence: Jesus’ Third Way’.” Pages 126-36 in The Love of Enemy and Nonretaliation in the New Testament.
“The Imperial Situation of Palestinian Jewish Society.” Pages 395-407 in The Bible and Liberation: Political and Social Hermeneutics, rev.
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“Wisdom Justified by All Her Children: Examining Allegedly Disparate Traditions in Q.” Pages 733-51 in Society of Biblical Literature 1994 Seminar Papers.
“Archaeology and the Villages of Upper Galilee: A Dialogue with Archaeologists.” Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research no.
“The Kingdom of God and the Renewal of Israel: Synoptic Gospels, Jesus Movements, and Apocalypticism.” Pages 303-44 in The Origins of Apocalypticism in Judaism and Christianity.
“Introduction: Krister Stendahl’s Challenge to Pauline Studies.” Pages 1–16 in Paul and Politics: Ekklesia, Israel, Imperium, Interpretation.
“Moral Economy, Little Tradition, and Hidden Transcript: Applying the Work of James C. Scott to Q.” Pages 240-59 in Society of Biblical Literature 2001 Seminar Papers.
“Subverting Disciplines: The Possibilities and Limitations of Postcolonial Theory for New Testament Studies.” Pages 90–105 in Toward a New Heaven and a New Earth: Essays in Honor of Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza.
“Feminist Scholarship and Postcolonial Criticism: Subverting Imperial Discourse and Reclaiming Submerged Histories.” Pages 297-317 in Walk in the Ways of Wisdom: Essays in Honor of Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza.
“The Politics of Disguise and Public Declaration of the Hidden Transcript: Broadening Our Approach to the Historical Jesus with Scott’s ‘Arts of Resistance’ Theory.” Pages 61-80 in Hidden Transcripts and the Arts of Resistance: Applying the Work of James C. Scott to Jesus and Paul.
“The Politics of Cultural Production in Second Temple Judea: Historical Context and Political-Religious Relations of the Scribes Who Produced 1 Enoch, Sirach, and Daniel.” Pages 123-45 in Conflicted Boundaries in Wisdom and Apocalypticism.
Repr., “The Politics of Cultural Production in Second Temple Judea: The Historical Context of Sirach, 1 Enoch and Daniel.” Pages 56–80 in Richard A. Horsley and Patrick Tiller.
“Introduction.” Pages vii-xvi in Performing the Gospel: Orality, Memory, and Mark: Essays Dedicated to Werner Kelber.
“Moral Economy and Renewal Movement in Q.” Pages 143-57 in Oral Performance, Popular Tradition, and Hidden Transcript in Q. Edited by Richard A. Horsley.
“The Political Roots of Early Judean Apocalyptic Texts.” Pages 262-78 in To Break Every Yoke: Essays in Honor of Marvin L. Chaney.
“‘My Name is Legion’: Spirit Possession and Exorcism in Roman Palestine.” Pages 41-57 in Inquiry into Religious Experience in Early Judaism and Christianity, Experientia Vol.
“The Language(s) of the Kingdom: From Aramaic to Greek, Galilee to Syria, Oral to Oral-Written.” Pages 401-25 in A Wandering Galilean: Essays in Honour of Seán Freyne.
“The Language(s) of the Kingdom: From Aramaic to Greek, Galilee to Syria.” Pages 198-219 in Text and Tradition in Performance and Writing.
Review of Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth, by Reza Aslan, Critical Research on Religion 2.2 (2014): 195-205.
“Why Bother with Biblical Studies?” Pages 313-56 in Reading the Bible in an Age of Crisis: Political Exegesis for a New Day.
Hidden Transcripts and the Arts of Resistance: Applying the Work of James C. Scott to Jesus and Paul.
Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1987 Neusner, Jacob, Peder Borgen, Ernest S. Frerichs, and Richard A. Horsley, eds.