Luke Acts And Empire

Author : David Rhoads,David Esterline,Jae Won Lee
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781608990986

Get Book

Luke-Acts and Empire by David Rhoads,David Esterline,Jae Won Lee Pdf

In recent years, scholars have explored anew the interface between the early Christian movements and the Roman Empire. Once thought to be quietistic, the early Christian movements turn out to have been critical of the Empire and significantly counterimperial. This collection of essays in honor of Robert Brawley turns the spotlight on Luke-Acts. The soundings taken here disclose deeper anti-imperial rhetoric than previously thought. In brazen and subtle ways, Luke-Acts displays an alternative realm of peace and justice inaugurated by Jesus under the God of Israel. The essays in this volume will lead you to hear Luke-Acts in fresh ways.

Author : Mina Monier
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2020-11-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781978707450

Get Book

Temple and Empire by Mina Monier Pdf

Temple and Empire explores the theme of temple piety in Luke-Acts and 1 Clement in historical context. Mina Monier argues that situating both works in Trajanic Rome, and reading them through the lens of Roman imperial ideology explains their peculiarly positive presentation of the Temple as a form of reverence toward ancient worship and ancestral customs that would not offend, but would appeal to traditional Roman sensibilities.

Author : P.D. James
Publisher : Canongate Books
Page : 93 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Bibles
ISBN : 9780857861078

Get Book

The Acts of the Apostles by P.D. James Pdf

Acts is the sequel to Luke's gospel and tells the story of Jesus's followers during the 30 years after his death. It describes how the 12 apostles, formerly Jesus's disciples, spread the message of Christianity throughout the Mediterranean against a background of persecution. With an introduction by P.D. James

Author : David Rhoads,David Esterline,Jae Won Lee
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781621891147

Get Book

Luke-Acts and Empire by David Rhoads,David Esterline,Jae Won Lee Pdf

In recent years, scholars have explored anew the interface between the early Christian movements and the Roman Empire. Once thought to be quietistic, the early Christian movements turn out to have been critical of the Empire and significantly counterimperial. This collection of essays in honor of Robert Brawley turns the spotlight on Luke-Acts. The soundings taken here disclose deeper anti-imperial rhetoric than previously thought. In brazen and subtle ways, Luke-Acts displays an alternative realm of peace and justice inaugurated by Jesus under the God of Israel. The essays in this volume will lead you to hear Luke-Acts in fresh ways.

Author : Kazuhiko Yamazaki-Ransom
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2010-05-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567364395

Get Book

The Roman Empire in Luke's Narrative by Kazuhiko Yamazaki-Ransom Pdf

This work illuminates Luke’s portrayals of Roman officials in light of Jewish portrayals of Gentile rulers in the Old Testament and in Second Temple Literature.

Author : Frank Dicken
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2014-10-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 3161532546

Get Book

Herod as a Composite Character in Luke-Acts by Frank Dicken Pdf

"Were the three rulers with the name "Herod" in Luke-Acts a composite character? Frank Dicken explores their narrative similarities and interprets them as a single character in light of other examples of conflation in Jewish and early Christian literature."--Provided by publisher.

Author : Robert R. Beck
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2019-05-23
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781532656538

Get Book

A Light to the Centurions by Robert R. Beck Pdf

In this book, Robert Beck proposes to read Luke-Acts from the perspective of its implied reader. In making this reader a gentile sympathetic to Judaism, like the “God-fearing” centurions inscribed in his text, Luke reverses the empire-critical narrative perspectives of Mark and Matthew. And yet he profoundly challenges imperial cultural values. Luke launches his double narrative with Jesus’ proclamation in the Nazareth synagogue. In lieu of the tradition of Ezra with its safeguarding customs, this programmatic announcement promises a path to the gentiles in the tradition of Third Isaiah, with both its releases and its risks. Luke shows a way for the outsider to enter into the traditions of Israel, and not replace them. This reading regards the full narrative sweep of Luke’s double work. It yields a fresh look at his Gospel, as well as the largely neglected narrative structure of Acts.

Author : Mina Monier
Publisher : Fortress Academic
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-30
Category : Bible
ISBN : 1978707444

Get Book

Temple and Empire by Mina Monier Pdf

Mina Monier argues that Luke-Acts shared with 1 Clement a concern to define and defend a type of Christian piety that would not offend Roman sensibilities. The author used the Temple of Jerusalem positively, as a platform for showing Christian piety towards ancient worship, ancestral customs and God of antiquity.

Author : Robert Maddox
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Apostelgeschichte
ISBN : UOM:39015001115834

Get Book

The Purpose of Luke-Acts by Robert Maddox Pdf

Author : Mike Mazzalongo
Publisher : BibleTalk.tv
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2018-04-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

Get Book

Luke/Acts for Beginners by Mike Mazzalongo Pdf

This book will review Luke's two volume historical narrative concerning Jesus' life and ministry as well the beginning and spread of Christianity in the Roman Empire as he experienced it.

Author : Christina Petterson
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2020-03-23
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781532676321

Get Book

Acts of Empire, Second Edition by Christina Petterson Pdf

This book combines New Testament studies and cultural theory, and analyzes Acts of the Apostles as a product of imperial discourse. In five chapters, Christina Petterson engages Acts with ideology, gender, class, and empire with different emphases. All of these analyses argue that Christianity can never be set outside discourses of exploitation, discrimination, and hierarchies, but must always be set within them.

Author : Richard J. Cassidy,Philip J. Scharper
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Religion
ISBN : UOM:39015013004778

Get Book

Political Issues in Luke-Acts by Richard J. Cassidy,Philip J. Scharper Pdf

Author : Dennis R. MacDonald
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2018-10-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781978701397

Get Book

Luke and the Politics of Homeric Imitation by Dennis R. MacDonald Pdf

Luke and the Politics of Homeric Imitation: Luke–Acts as Rival to the Aeneid argues that the author of Luke–Acts composed not a history but a foundation mythology to rival Vergil’s Aeneid by adopting and ethically emulating the cultural capital of classical Greek poetry, especially Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey and Euripides's Bacchae. For example, Vergil and, more than a century later, Luke both imitated Homer’s account of Zeus’s lying dream to Agamemnon, Priam’s escape from Achilles, and Odysseus’s shipwreck and visit to the netherworld. Both Vergil and Luke, as well as many other intellectuals in the Roman Empire, engaged the great poetry of the Greeks to root new social or political realities in the soil of ancient Hellas, but they also rivaled Homer’s gods and heroes to create new ones that were more moral, powerful, or compassionate. One might say that the genre of Luke–Acts is an oxymoron: a prose epic. If this assessment is correct, it holds enormous importance for understanding Christian origins, in part because one may no longer appeal to the Acts of the Apostles for reliable historical information. Luke was not a historian any more than Vergil was, and, as the Latin bard had done for the Augustine age, he wrote a fictional portrayal of the kingdom of God and its heroes, especially Jesus and Paul, who were more powerful, more ethical, and more compassionate than the gods and heroes of Homer and Euripides or those of Vergil’s Aeneid.

Author : Jerome H. Neyrey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Religion
ISBN : UOM:39015034425820

Get Book

The Social World of Luke-Acts by Jerome H. Neyrey Pdf

"Although the focus in this book is on Luke-Acts, the models and methods presented here can be employed with insight and profit for the interpretation of other New Testament documents. Focussed on Luke-Acts, this volume can serve as a handbook which covers both the interpretation of a specific text and the presentation of an adequately broad historical-critical method of interpretation." --

Author : Seyoon Kim
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2008-10-07
Category : Bibles
ISBN : 9780802860088

Get Book

Christ and Caesar by Seyoon Kim Pdf

This title looks at what kind of responses Paul made to the Roman Empire. The author subjects the methods of current interpreters to critical scrutiny and discusses what makes an anti-imperial interpretation of Pauline writings difficult.