This volume explores Pauls use of Scripture and Roman imperialism, finding hermeneutical and theoretical clarity and a fresh understanding of peace in Romans. Dain Alexander Smith interprets Romans with postcolonial intertextuality to reveal that Romans employs a consistent textual strategy for discussing the gospel, justice, and peace. Smith thus focuses on 12:1713:14 and 14:1719, to provide the reader with fresh interpretive insights on the text of Romans.
Smith proposes that Romans presents a political theology of peace that is intertextually double-voiced", that the pairing of peace and justice in Romans is primarily informed by the political discourses of LXX Isaiah and LXX Psalms, but suggesting that this pairing is also presented in contrast to the Roman Empires political ideals, as exemplified in the Pax Romana. Ultimately, Smith argues that placing Romans in postcolonial-intertextual dialogue reveals that Pauls ethics construct a community that represents the justice and peace of Gods eschatological kingdom in contrast to the justice and peace of the Roman Empire.
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This volume brings the research spaces of intertextuality and empire criticism in New Testament studies into conversation using postcolonial intertextuality to argue that Romans presents a "double-voiced" political theology of peace.
Contents
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Preface
1. Introduction to the Politics of Peace in Romans
2. Intertextuality and Empire Criticism: Hermeneutics, Postcolonial
Intertextuality, and Intertextual Competence
3. Opening Romans to the Politics of Peace
4. The Politics of Peace in Isaiah and the Psalms
5. The Politics of Peace in the Roman Empire
6. Submitting to the Politics of Peace: Reconfiguring Romans
7. The Politics of Peace in the Kingdom of God: Reconfiguring Romans
8. Conclusion: Moving Beyond the Politics of Peace in Romans
Bibliography
Index
Dain Alexander Smith is an independent scholar. He completed his PhD from Asbury Theological Seminary, Kentucky, USA.
