How political is the Bible? Received wisdom tends to offer up two answers to this question.
The first is "not very" because, so the argument goes, Jesus was deliberately apolitical. A 2009 Sunday Times review of two books by the distinguished New Testament historian Geza Vermes gave as good an example of this as you could hope for. "Jesus's main concern," wrote the reviewer, "was healing the sick, comforting the poor and preaching about the coming of the Kingdom of God. He had no interest in politics, revolution or theology."
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