Abstract
This study seeks to answer three questions. Can one discern anything typical about the leaders of peasant mass movements? Was Jesus typical? What made him typical? After preliminary definitions a summary of anthropological studies of peas ant mass movements is presented. The evidence from these works indicates that leaders do exhibit a pattern with respect to social origins. Next the article surveys the mass movements in the Roman empire known from the classical sources, fol lowed by a similar survey of movements in Palestine. Virtually the same pattern can be seen in these sources. The conclusions will be that there was a discernible pattern concerning the origin of the leaders of the movements, that Jesus fit the pattern, and that his background as a craftsman did not impede his leadership of peasants.
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