RT Book
T1 Toward a Postcolonial Reading of the Epistle of James: James 2:1-13 in Its Roman Imperial Context
T2 Biblical Interpretation Ser.
A1 Mongstad-Kvammen, Ingeborg
LA English
PP Leiden
PB BRILL
YR 2013
ED 1st ed.
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1696636248
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.
AB Intro -- Contents -- 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 -- Early Dating and James the Brother of the Lord as Author -- Late 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 -- Matthias Ahrens -- Wesley 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.
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SN 9789004251878
K1 Bible ; James, II, 1-13 ; Postcolonial criticism
K1 Religion ; History
K1 Electronic books