Drew J. Strait

Hidden Criticism of the Angry Tyrant in Early Judaism and the Acts of the Apostles

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Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the world of discursive resistance among subalterns in early Jewish and Greco-Roman antiquity, then sets Luke's hidden criticism of imperial Rome in the Acts of the Apostles and Paul's speech on the Areopagus in Acts 17 in that context.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Fortress Academic
• Seitenzahl: 438
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Juli 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 860g
• ISBN-13: 9781978700727
• ISBN-10: 1978700725
• Artikelnr.: 56731756

Autorenporträt

By Drew J. Strait - Foreword by David P. Moessner

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter One
The Acts of the Apostles and Empire Part I: Objects of Resistance Chapter Two
Profiling Power: Divine Honors and Kingship Literature Chapter Three
Hybrid Divine Honors in the Epigraphic Record Part II: Strategies of Resistance Chapter Four
Jewish Discursive Resistance Chapter Five
The First Commandment and Hellenistic Monarchy Chapter Six
The Second Commandment and Hellenistic Monarchy Chapter Seven
The Wisdom of Solomon and Empire Part III: Discursive Resistance and the Acts of the Apostles Chapter Eight
The Politics of Luke: Acts and the Cosmology of Empire Chapter Nine
The Areopagus Speech and Political Idolatry Chapter Ten
The Areopagus Speech as Resistance Literature?