Jesus's Manifesto: The Sermon on the Plain

Jesuss Manifesto: The Sermon on the Plain is a historical analysis and exegesis of the Sermon on the Plain found in Luke 6:2049. Going into the historical and literary context of the Sermon on the Plain it examines how the message fits into the world of Jesus and his audience. Jesuss Manifesto demonstrates how the Sermons ethical injunctions and eschatological message interacted with contemporary ideologies and how these injunctions were meant to be taken as normative commandments by Jesus in light of his eschatological message. Many have attempted to dampen the ethical teachings of Jesus by trying to relativize them or by trying to make them compatible with the wider culture and the dominant ideologies; however when understood in its historical context the Sermons message was not only incompatible with the wider culture and the dominant ideologies but it stood in opposition to them. Jesuss Manifesto provides the necessary historical and anthropological tools to fully appreciate the profound and seemingly radical message of the Sermon of the Plain.