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The world surrounding Paul and the assemblies comes vividly to life
here. Documents and Images for the Study of Paul gathers
representative texts illustrating Jewish practices, Greco-Roman
moral exhortation, biblical interpretation, Roman ideology,
apocalyptic visions, epistolary conventions, and more to illustrate
the complex cultural environment in which Paul carried out his
apostolic workand the manifold ways in which his legacy was
reshaped in early Christianity. Paul is the focus of intense and
often controversial scholarly attention today. Brief, insightful
introductions orient the reader to the significance of ancient
sources for different contemporary interpretations of Paul's life
and thought. Photographs illustrate the visual environment of the
Greco-Roman world; a map, a timeline, and an index of scripture
passages make the sourcebook the perfect companion text for
studying Paul and his letters.
The Apostle employs the Scriptures more in Romans than in any of
his other letters. Scripture, Texts, and Tracings in Romans
advances the interpretation of Romans by exploring how the Apostle
Paul quoted, alluded to, or "echoed" the Jewish Scriptures.
Identification of allusions is at the forefront, as are questions
of methodology, the texture of Paul's theology, his understanding
of Scripture, and implications for other areas of Pauline studies,
such as empire-criticism.
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Pauline Politics (Paperback)
Daniel Oudshoorn; Foreword by Neil Elliott
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Pauline Politics (Hardcover)
Daniel Oudshoorn; Foreword by Neil Elliott
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In The Rhetoric of Romans, Neil Elliott presents a rhetorical-
critical reading of the letter that indicates that Paul wrote, not
to counter Jewish opponents or aspects of the Jewish religion, nor
to legitimize the law-free gentile church, but to warn against
elements of the Hellenistic church's Christology and an incipient
Christian supersessionism that threatened the collection in
Jerusalem and the heart of his apostolic work.
Class Struggle in the New Testament engages the political and
economic realities of the first century to unmask the mediation of
class through several New Testament texts and traditions. Essays
span a range of subfields, presenting class struggle as the motor
force of history by responding to recent debates, historical data,
and new evidence on the political-economic world of Jesus, Paul,
and the Gospels. Chapters address collective struggles in the
Gospels; the Roman military and class; the usefulness of categories
like peasant, retainer, and middling groups for understanding the
world of Jesus; the class basis behind the origin of archangels;
the Gospels as products of elite culture; the implication of
capitalist ideology upon biblical interpretation; and the New
Testament's use of slavery metaphors, populist features, and
gifting practices. This book will become a definitive reference
point for future discussion.
Class Struggle in the New Testament engages the political and
economic realities of the first century to unmask the mediation of
class through several New Testament texts and traditions. Essays
span a range of subfields, presenting class struggle as the motor
force of history by responding to recent debates, historical data,
and new evidence on the political-economic world of Jesus, Paul,
and the Gospels. Chapters address collective struggles in the
Gospels; the Roman military and class; the usefulness of categories
like peasant, retainer, and middling groups for understanding the
world of Jesus; the class basis behind the origin of archangels;
the Gospels as products of elite culture; the implication of
capitalist ideology upon biblical interpretation; and the New
Testament's use of slavery metaphors, populist features, and
gifting practices. This book will become a definitive reference
point for future discussion.
The field of New Testament studies often appears splintered into
widely different specializations and narrowly defined research
projects. Nevertheless, some of the most important insights have
come about when curious men and women have defied disciplinary
boundaries and drawn on other fields of knowledge in order to gain
a more adequate view of history. The essays in Bridges in New
Testament Interpretation offer surveys of the current scholarly
discussion in areas of New Testament and Christian origins where
cross-disciplinary fertilization has been decisive and describe the
role that interdisciplinary 'bridges,' especially as led by Richard
A. Horsley, have played. Topics include the socioeconomic history
of Roman Palestine; the historical Jesus in political and media
contexts; communication media, orality, and social context in the
study of Q; the Gospels in the context of oral culture,
performance, and social memory; reading Paul’s letters in the
context of Roman imperial culture; the narrativization of early
Christianity in relation to the ancient media environment; and the
role of power in shaping our understanding of history, as evident
in 'people’s history;' the historical agency of subordinate
classes; and the role of public and 'hidden transcripts' in
contexts shaped by power relations. Essays also address the role of
the interpreter as engaged with the social and political concerns
of our time. The sum is even greater than the parts, presenting a
powerful argument for the value of further exploration across
interdisciplinary bridges.
Elliott offers a fresh and surprising reinterpretation of Pauls
letter to the Romans in the context of Roman imperial ideology,
bringing to the text the latest insights from classical studies,
rhetorical criticism, postcolonial criticism, and peoples history.
By setting the letter alongside Roman texts (Cicero, Virgil, the
Res Gestae of Augustus, Seneca, poets from the age of Nero, as well
as later historians and satirists), Elliott provides a dramatic new
reading of the letter as Pauls confrontation with the arrogance of
empireand an emerging Christianity already tempted by the seductive
ideology of imperial power.
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