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Paul Revises Jesus Politically
There's the Jacob Taoist you, that Paul is more anti-Roman and in some ways more anti-statist than Jesus. How is Paul revising Jesus politically? I think that Jesus is very radically anti-state. Both in Jerusalem and in Rome, power is interfused with those who claim a mandate to interpret the divine. This is clearly the case in the Jerusalem temple. The Romans too are absolutely implicated in a sense that their power is interfusing with an understanding of the divine.