Empire and Epistles: Anti-Roman Rhetoric in the New Testament Epistles
Recent studies of the letters of the New Testament have uncovered intentional words, phrases, ideology and imagery that carry the weight of anti-imperial rhetoric. The second of three articles, this is an investigation of current scholarship concerned with the use of anti-imperial rhetoric in the Ne...
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| Τύπος μέσου: | Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Άρθρο |
| Γλώσσα: | Αγγλικά |
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Sage
2012
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Currents in biblical research
Έτος: 2012, Τόμος: 10, Τεύχος: 2, Σελίδες: 217-263 |
| Άλλες λέξεις-κλειδιά: | B
New Testament Epistles
B Early Christianity B Roman Empire B imperial cult B subversive rhetoric |
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| Παράλληλη έκδοση: | Ηλεκτρονική πηγή
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| Σύνοψη: | Recent studies of the letters of the New Testament have uncovered intentional words, phrases, ideology and imagery that carry the weight of anti-imperial rhetoric. The second of three articles, this is an investigation of current scholarship concerned with the use of anti-imperial rhetoric in the New Testament epistles. While it is impossible to ignore the Jewish nature of many of the New Testament epistles, both mild and overt, anti-imperial rhetoric challenges the emperor worship and the propaganda of the Roman imperial authorities of the first century. The first part of this article, published in Currents 10.1, is a brief summation of the scholarly developments that have taken place in the discipline of the New Testament epistles. Over decades of research, scholarship has moved from the understanding of the intersection of the book of Acts and the Pauline letters, to the connection between the Apostle Paul and Judaism, to the realization of the junction between Paul and the Gentile world. The second part of the article focuses on a number of Pauline epistles and general epistles where we catch a glimpse of a newer scholarly development, which is a postcolonial approach to the context of the New Testament epistles and the Roman Empire. In a general sense, the response of the authors of the New Testament epistles to the dominating government seems to be, ‘Jesus is Lord, not Caesar!’ |
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| ISSN: | 1745-5200 |
| Περιλαμβάνει: | Enthalten in: Currents in biblical research
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/1476993X11415346 |