Jesus wouldn’t have had politics we would find legible to us today, because the political landscape is contingent on the material conditions of a given place and time.
It’s certainly interesting that the Bible is a series of documents written on the margins of empire, and that might inform how to think about it today. But Jesus himself would have had political opinions that do not map onto our modern, post-French Revolution, ideas of “left vs right”.
Jesus wouldn’t have had politics we would find legible to us today, because the political landscape is contingent on the material conditions of a given place and time.
It’s certainly interesting that the Bible is a series of documents written on the margins of empire, and that might inform how to think about it today. But Jesus himself would have had political opinions that do not map onto our modern, post-French Revolution, ideas of “left vs right”.