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Matthew and Empire - Initial Explorations (Paperback)
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Although New Testament scholars have examined Paul's writings and
their relationship to the Roman empire and its imperial policies
and writings, they have focused little attention on ways in which
the Gospels were influenced by that imperialism. In Matthew and
Empire, Warren Carter argues that Matthew's Gospel protests Roman
imperialism by asserting that God's purposes and will are performed
not by the empire and emperor but by Jesus and his community of
disciples. Matthew and Empire makes the claim for reading Matthew
in this way against the almost exclusive emphasis on the
relationship with the synagogue that has long been a staple of
Matthean criticism. Carter establishes Matthew's imperial context
by examining Roman imperial ideology and material presence in
Antioch, the traditional provenance for Matthew. He argues that
Matthean Christology, which presents Jesus as God's agent, is
shaped by claims and protests against those claims that the emperor
and empire are agents of God. In successive chapters Carter pays
particular attention to the Gospel's central irony, namely that in
depicting God's ways and purposes, the Gospel employs the very
imperial framework that it resists. Matthew and Empire challenges
traditional readings of Matthew and Empire encourages fresh
perspectives in Matthean scholarship. Warren Carter is Pherigo
Professor of New Testament at Saint Paul School of Theology and
author of Matthew and the Margins: A Socio-Political and Religious
Reading.>
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