Finished it.
Hudson will quibble Crossan on Luke, where Crossan believes that Luke is a pro-Roman drone who - unlike Paul - didn't care about slavery. Luke, in Hudson's reading, holds that Old Testament thought that the ruling saecular powers should undo debt. Given Crossan's (incontroversible) argument that Luke is pro-Roman, then Luke wants a new Rome, through which the Holy Spirit will inspire the Princeps to... undo debt.
Stephen Shoemaker documented much hope throughout the ages for Hudson's project. This could mean an outside army, but it could also mean the return of a righteous Roman king - or at least a populist king, like Nero. The Macedonian kings of the Byzantine Empire, in fact, performed this act on behalf of their people.
Crossan himself gets to that theme in the last chapter comparing Sabbath Theology to Sanction Theology. Sabbath is the Jubilee restoration of debt, from Genesis One and Holiness Code; Sanction is from Deuteronomy and the Revelation. As do most Baby-Boom liberals, Crossan prefers the former without fully grasping the implications.
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