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

Drew J. Strait (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

438 Seiten

2019
Lexington Books/Fortress Academic (Verlag)
9781978700727 (ISBN)

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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.

Hidden Criticism of the Angry Tyrant in Early Judaism and the Acts of the Apostles adds to the current literature of imperial-critical New Testament readings with an examination of Luke’s hidden criticism of imperial Rome in the Acts of the Apostles and in Paul’s speech on the Areopagus in Acts 17. Focusing on discursive resistance in the Hellenistic world, Drew J. Strait examines the relationship between hidden criticism and persuasion and between subordinates and the powerful, and he explores the challenge to the dissident voice to communicate criticism while under surveillance. Strait argues that Luke confronts the idolatrous power and iconic spectacle of gods and kings with the Gospel of the Lord of all—a worldview that is incompatible with the religions of Rome, including emperor worship.

Drew J. Strait is assistant professor of New Testament and Christian origins at Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary.

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?

Erscheinungsdatum	11.08.2019
Vorwort	David P. Moessner
Zusatzinfo	7 tables;
Sprache	englisch
Maße	160 x 228 mm
Gewicht	848 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Judentum
ISBN-13	9781978700727 / 9781978700727
Zustand	Neuware