As a nation, Germany seems to operate in its own sphere, a land which
defies time and history by melding its ancient timeline with the heady skyscrapers of the future.
However, for Crossan (
and to some extent Borg) the Jesus of
history was the center of a Galilean Camelot, the halcyon days when Jesus
and his band roamed the countryside, disregarding societal structures,
defying hierarchical patterns, irritating elites
and confounding the powerful, creating a grass - roots movement with nobodies while at the same
time refusing to be its leader or mediator of the New because that would be brokering the kingdom.