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Framed within a discussion on the propriety of using biblical texts
for reasoning about social, cultural, and political realities,
Roman Self-Representation and the Lukan Kingdom of God explores the
construction of the kingdom of God in Luke and Acts through the
lens of well-known examples of Rome's presentation of its own
empire. By evoking the audience's lived experience of Roman
rule-its stories and works of literature, its monuments and graphic
programs-the Lukan narrative establishes categories within which it
can communicate about the kingdom of God in a culturally meaningful
way. It does so by mirroring, diverging from, or subverting the
logic of these expressions of Roman rule. This study thus touches
on a wide range of issues-including status disparities, strategies
for religious and ethnic representation, economic and military
imperialism, violence, and the relation of gender to imperial
power-and is suggestive regarding both the Lukan vision of the
kingdom of God and Lukan dispositions toward aspects of Roman rule.
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