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This book addresses the ways in which the Gospel of Matthew
portrays and negotiates Roman military power. John E. Christianson
argues that Matthew, writing in the years following the Jewish War,
offers strategies such as avoidance, accommodation, non-violent
resistance, mimicry, and dreams of divine retribution and
eschatological fulfillment to help his audience cope with life in
Roman Syria. With an eye toward the ways that military structures
and networks of social power functioned to increase imperial
control over people and territory, Christianson shows how Matthew's
strategies include ways to help his audience negotiate potentially
dangerous encounters with Roman military personnel. This includes
texts that address the possibility of state sanctioned violence by
Roman aligned rulers Herod and Antipas; the abuse of requisitioned
labor in Roman angaria; Jesus' response to the direct request of a
centurion with opaque motivations; a vision of retribution on Roman
eagles by the eschatological Son of Man, and soldiers' response to
Jesus' death and resurrection as a prelude to divine overthrow of
Roman military power. In all cases, this book demonstrates how
interpretation of Matthew's narrative must account for the
pervasive presence of the Roman military in the ancient world.
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