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This book explores how the New Testament, specifically the four canonical gospels, negotiate the Roman imperial world.
This book explores how the New Testament, specifically the four canonical gospels, negotiate the Roman imperial world.
Each chapter contributes to a larger goal of demonstrating how the Roman imperial world functions as a critical context that can yield new and exciting perspectives on the gospel narratives. Within this volume, scholars from a variety of contexts come together to examine a particular aspect of negotiation with the Roman Empire, including Genre and Composition, Economic Justice and Social Ethics, Ritual Purity and Ethnicity, Roman Figures, Hegemonic Narratives of Empire, and Gender Construction. The contributors provide an interdisciplinary perspective, incorporating literary studies, gender criticism, Jewish studies, and disability studies.
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These essays show that questions of empire and imperialism remain vital in Gospel studies and offer new vistas on more specific questions today. Not to be missed! * Neil Elliott, author of Liberating Paul: The Justice of God and the Politics of the Apostle (1994), The Arrogance of Nations: Reading Romans in the Shadow of Empire (2008), and Paul the Jew under Roman Rule (2024), among other works * This essay collection on the connections between the New Testament and the Roman Empire advances the field of inquiry through providing readers with multiple accessible entry points, theoretical frameworks, historical comparisons, and exegetical propositions. Those interested in interdisciplinary explorations of canonical Gospel narratives in their complex historical and cultural contexts will find much with which to think in this volume. A most welcome resource that charts future interpretive directions * Davina C. Lopez, Loy H. Witherspoon Professor of Christian Origins, University of North Carolina at Charlotte * The shadow of the Roman Empire looms large in the composition of the New Testament Gospels. In these collected essays, these imperial contexts and subtexts are named in clarifying ways, analyzed in refreshing approaches, and interpreted anew, arguing together that critical attention to the many yet subtle ways the empire inflected the Gospels remains a critical site of study for New Testament scholars today. * Eric D. Barreto, Princeton Theological Seminary *
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This book explores how the New Testament, specifically the four canonical gospels, negotiate the Roman imperial world.
Introduction, Jillian D. Nelson
Chapter One: The Narratives of Roman Imperial Power, Warren Carter
Chapter Two: New Insights into the Genre of the Canonical Gospels and Their
Composition, Elizabeth J. B. Corsar
Chapter Three: Not Like Them: (Re) Considering the Gospel of Mark as
Subversive-Political Biography, Justin Marc Smith
Chapter Four: Building Disciples or Discipling Building?: Construction Scenes
in Lukes Gospel, Anna M. V. Bowden
Chapter Five: The Money Could Have Been Given to the Poor: The Military and
the Monetization of the Economy in the Gospel of Mark, Christopher B.
Zeichmann
Chapter Six: Gospels, Ritual, Purity, and Ethnicity and the Roman World, R.
Alan Streett
Chapter Seven: A Palm Parade, Hidden Transcripts, and the Politics of Peace
in the Fourth Gospel, Arthur M. Wright, Jr.
Chapter Eight: Assessing Bodies in Matthews Gospel: How Matthew Fleshes
Out Claims for Jesuss Status and Authority, Annelies Gisela Moeser
Chapter Nine: There is neither Jew nor Greek? Postcolonial Trauma and the
Destruction of the Second Temple, Joseph McDonald
Chapter Ten: The Herodians and Roman Imperial Engagement in the Synoptic
Gospels, Adam Winn
Jillian D. Nelson is Adjunct Instructor for Texas Christian University. Adam Winn is the S. Louis and Ann W. Armstrong Professor and Chair of the Department of Biblical and Religious Studies at Samford University
