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Title Paul and the Roman imperial order / edited by Richard A. Horsley
Published Harrisburg, Pa. : Trinity Press International, 2004

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 198 pages)
Contents The corruption and redemption of creation : reading Rom 8:18-23 within the imperial context / Robert Jewett -- Unmasking the powers : toward a postcolonial analysis of 1 Thessalonians / Abraham Smith -- The Apostle Paul's self-presentation as anti-imperial performance / Neil Elliott -- Resisting imperial domination and influence : Paul's apocalyptic rhetoric in 1 Corinthians / Rollin A. Ramsaran -- Patronage and commendation, imperial and anti-imperial / Efrain Agosto -- Phil 2:6-11 and resistance to local timocratic rule : isa theĊ and the cult of the emperor in the East / Erik M. Heen -- Paul and the politics of virtue and vice / Jennifer Wright Knust -- Response / Simon R.F. Price
Summary "The five articles and Simon Price's response at the core of this book were originally papers delivered in a session of the Paul and Politics Group at the 2000 SBL Annual Meeting. There are a number of special features that make this a special combination of articles on Paul in what is turning out to be a highly suggestive new perspective and context, the ancient Roman imperial order. First, these articles are all informed by and respond in some way to the ground-breaking work of Simon Price on the Roman imperial cult in Greek cities, some of the very cities in which Paul carried out his mission. Invited as a special guest of the SBL for the 2000 Annual Meeting, Price was the respondent to these papers and interaction with him has aided the authors in their revisions. The articles bring a rich variety of fresh perspectives to issues of the relation of Paul and the Roman imperial order, including postcolonial theory, political-anthropological theory (James C. Scott), postcolonial theory, and feminist theory, along with the new perspective on the imperial cult represented by Price. This collection of articles thus stands at the cutting edge of new scholarship on Paul's mission and letters in his political and cultural context. Contributors for this book include Robert Jewett, Abraham Smith, Neil Elliott, Rollin A. Ramsaran, Efrain Agosto, Erik Heen, Jennifer Wright Knust, and Simon R.F. Price. Richard A. Horsley is Distinguished Professor of Liberal Arts and the Study of Religion at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, and the author of Paul and Politics: Ekklesia, Israel, Imperium, Interpretation and Paul and Empire: Religion and Power in Roman Imperial Society."--Bloomsbury Publishing
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Paul, the Apostle, Saint -- Political and social views
SUBJECT Paul, the Apostle, Saint fast
Paulus <Apostel> swd
Bible. Epistles of Paul -- Criticism, interpretation, etc
Bible. Epistles of Paul fast
Briefe. swd
Subject Christianity and politics -- History of doctrines -- Early church, ca. 30-600
RELIGION -- Biblical Studies -- New Testament.
RELIGION -- Biblical Studies -- Paul's Letters.
Political and social views
Zeithintergrund
Vroege kerk.
Politieke aspecten.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
Author Horsley, Richard A., editor
ISBN 9781501302008
1501302000
9780567203137
0567203131