Full Description
This edited collection explores how the New Testament, specifically the four canonical Gospels, negotiate the Roman imperial world.
Within this volume, scholars from a variety of interdisciplinary contexts come together, examining a particular aspect of the New Testament's complex relationship with the Roman Empire. By incorporating literary studies, gender criticism, Jewish studies, and disability studies into their analysis, the essays herein provide fresh readings of these foundational texts. Jillian D. Nelson and Adam Winn demonstrate through this collection that the Roman imperial world functions as a critical context for scholarship on the New Testament, yielding new and exciting perspectives on the Gospel narratives.
Contents
Introduction, Jillian D. Nelson
Chapter One: The Narratives of Roman Imperial Power, Warren Carter
Chapter Two: New Insights into the Genre of the Canonical Gospels and Their Composition, Elizabeth J. B. Corsar
Chapter Three: "Not Like Them": (Re) Considering the Gospel of Mark as Subversive-Political Biography, Justin Marc Smith
Chapter Four: Building Disciples or Discipling Building?: Construction Scenes in Luke's Gospel, Anna M. V. Bowden
Chapter Five: The Money Could Have Been Given to the Poor: The Military and the Monetization of the Economy in the Gospel of Mark, Christopher B. Zeichmann
Chapter Six: Gospels, Ritual, Purity, and Ethnicity and the Roman World, R. Alan Streett
Chapter Seven: A Palm Parade, Hidden Transcripts, and the Politics of Peace in the Fourth Gospel, Arthur M. Wright, Jr.
Chapter Eight: Assessing Bodies in Matthew's Gospel: How Matthew "Fleshes Out" Claims for Jesus's Status and Authority, Annelies Gisela Moeser
Chapter Nine: There is neither Jew nor Greek? Postcolonial Trauma and the Destruction of the Second Temple, Joseph McDonald
Chapter Ten: The Herodians and Roman Imperial Engagement in the Synoptic Gospels, Adam Winn
