RT Book T1 Toward a postcolonial reading of the Epistle of James: James 2:1-13 in its Roman imperial context T2 Biblical interpretation series, 0928-0731 T2 Biblical Interpretation Series A1 Mongstad-Kvammen, Ingeborg LA English PP Boston PB Brill YR 2013 UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1694905160 AB Early Dating and James the Brother of the Lord as AuthorLate Dating and a Pseudonymous Author; Conclusion: Date and Authorship; Location of the Author; Addressees; Inner Texture, Genre and Theological Background; Inner Texture; Genre; Theological Background; The Epistle of James in a Graeco-Roman Context; James 2:1-13 in Its Jamesian Context; Propositio; Ratio; Confirmatio; Exornatio; Conplexio; Summary; Chapter Two Situating the Present Investigation within Recent Jamesian Research; Introduction; Martin Dibelius; Poor and Rich in Jamesian Research; Elsa Tamez; Pedrito U. Maynard-Reid AB Matthias AhrensWesley Hiram Wachob; David Hutchinson Edgar; Martin Hengel; Summary; Interpretative Needs and Interpretative Conditions Concerning James 2:1-13; Part Two A Postcolonial Interpretation of James 2:1-13; Chapter Three Social and Cultural Texture: A Short Overview of Roman Political History and Markers of Social Affiliation; Introduction; Government of the Republic; The Assemblies and the Magistracies; The Ordines; Government of the Empire; Transition from the Republic to the Empire; The Equestrian Order in the Government of the Empire AB Preface; Acknowledgements; Note on Footnotes, Bibliography and Abbreviations; Part One Introduction and Background; Introduction; Theoretical Perspective-A Postcolonial Optic on James 2:1-13; Prelude; Postcolonialism and Biblical Studies; Obstacles to Applying a Postcolonial Optic to Biblical Research; The Application of a Postcolonial Optic to the Interpretation of James 2:1-13; Methodology; Inner Texture; Intertexture; Social and Cultural Texture; Ideological Texture; Chapter One The Epistle of James-Preliminary Considerations; Author and Time AB Toward a Postcolonial Reading of the Epistle of James offers an interpretation of Jas 2:1-13 putting the text in the midst of its Roman imperial context NO Includes bibliographical references and index CN BS2785.52 SN 9004251871 SN 9789004251878 K1 Bible : James II, 1-13 : Postcolonial criticism K1 RELIGION ; Biblical Studies ; New Testament K1 RELIGION ; Biblical Studies ; Paul's Letters K1 Postcolonial criticism of sacred works