Luke-Acts contains a wealth of material that is relevant to
politics, and the relationship between Jesus and his followers and
the Roman Empire becomes an issue at a number of points. The
author's fundamental attitude toward Rome is hard to discern,
however. The complexity of Luke's task as both a creative writer
and a mediator of received tradition, and perhaps as well the
author's own ambivalence, have left conflicting evidence in the
narrative. Scholarly treatments of the issue have tended to survey
in a relatively short scope a great amount of material with
different degrees of relevance to the question and representing
different proportions of authorial contribution and traditional
material. This book attempts to make a contribution to the
discussion by narrowing the focus to Luke's depiction of the Roman
provincial governors in his narrative, interpreted in terms of his
Greco-Roman literary context. Luke's portraits of Roman governors
can be seen to invoke expectations and concerns that were common in
the literary context. By these standards Luke's portrait of these
Roman authority figures is relatively critical, and demonstrates
his preoccupation with Rome's judgment of the Christians more than
a desire to commend Roman rule.
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