The Roman Empire In Lukes Narrative

Author : Kazuhiko Yamazaki-Ransom
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 0567364399
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Roman Empire in Luke's Narrative written by Kazuhiko Yamazaki-Ransom and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2010-05-27 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work illuminates Luke’s portrayals of Roman officials in light of Jewish portrayals of Gentile rulers in the Old Testament and in Second Temple Literature.

Author : Yong-sung Ahn
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9047409094
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Reign of God and Rome in Luke's Passion Narrative written by Yong-sung Ahn and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2006-03-01 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a Korean perspective, this book examines how Luke's Passion Narrative constructs the space-time of the Reign of God both in contest to and in compliance with that of Rome and shows how Luke's colonial relations complicate the Gospel's theological perspectives.

Author : David Rhoads
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1608990982
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Luke-Acts and Empire written by David Rhoads and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, scholars have explored anew the interface between the early Christian movements and the Roman Empire. Once thought to be quietistic, the early Christian movements turn out to have been critical of the Empire and significantly counterimperial. This collection of essays in honor of Robert Brawley turns the spotlight on Luke-Acts. The soundings taken here disclose deeper anti-imperial rhetoric than previously thought. In brazen and subtle ways, Luke-Acts displays an alternative realm of peace and justice inaugurated by Jesus under the God of Israel. The essays in this volume will lead you to hear Luke-Acts in fresh ways.

Author : Pyung-Soo Seo
Publisher : James Clarke & Company
ISBN 13 : 0227904907
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Luke's Jesus in the Roman Empire and the Emperor in the Gospel of Luke written by Pyung-Soo Seo and published by James Clarke & Company. This book was released on 2015-08-27 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shrewd and thoughtful, Pyung-Soo Seo offers an exciting and refreshing perspective on Luke's Gospel, which provides valuable clues to a deeper understanding of the vast power of the Roman Empire through Jesus' birth and trial accounts. Seo analyses the political role the Gospel played in the decades following the Crucifixion, and presents a compelling argument: the Bible emphasises Jesus' relationships with tax collectors as a way of displaying his moral authority, seen as he confronts one of the most hated aspects of the empire: the corruption and intimidation for which the emperor was ultimately responsible. Seo suggests that Luke wants us to compare Jesus and the emperor to show us how the emperor is found wanting. Concentrating on the titles of 'benefactor' and 'saviour' his analysis of Christ's moral authority is both discerning and erudite.

Author : Christy Cobb
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3030056899
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Slavery, Gender, Truth, and Power in Luke-Acts and Other Ancient Narratives written by Christy Cobb and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-04-25 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines slavery and gender through a feminist reading of narratives including female slaves in the Gospel of Luke, the Acts of the Apostles, and early Christian texts. Through the literary theory of Mikhail Bakhtin, the voices of three enslaved female characters—the female slave who questions Peter in Luke 22, Rhoda in Acts 12, and the prophesying slave of Acts 16—are placed into dialogue with female slaves found in the Apocryphal Acts, ancient novels, classical texts, and images of enslaved women on funerary monuments. Although ancients typically distrusted the words of slaves, Christy Cobb argues that female slaves in Luke-Acts speak truth to power, even though their gender and status suggest that they cannot. In this Bakhtinian reading, female slaves become truth-tellers and their words confirm aspects of Lukan theology. This exegetical, theoretical, and interdisciplinary book is a substantial contribution to conversations about women and slaves in Luke-Acts and early Christian literature.

Author : Michael Kochenash
Publisher : Fortress Academic
ISBN 13 : 9781978707368
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Roman Self-representation and the Lukan Kingdom of God written by Michael Kochenash and published by Fortress Academic. This book was released on 2020 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book is a literary analysis of selections from Luke and Acts concerned with: (1) exploring what Luke communicates about God's kingdom by using language and imagery related to the Roman Empire; and (2) evaluating what this communication tells us about Luke's dispositions toward Rome"--

Author : Joel B. Green
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
ISBN 13 : 3161565509
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Luke as Narrative Theologian written by Joel B. Green and published by Mohr Siebeck. This book was released on 2020-11-05 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This volume comprises studies by Joel B. Green on the Gospel of Luke and the Acts of the Apostles. These essays contribute to our understanding of the theological and narrative unity of Luke-Acts by pursuing a variety of topics including conversion, happiness, poverty and wealth, prayer, miracles, baptism, Mary the mother of Jesus, and Christology." --

Author : Frank Dicken
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
ISBN 13 : 9783161532542
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Herod as a Composite Character in Luke-Acts written by Frank Dicken and published by Mohr Siebeck. This book was released on 2014-10-09 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Were the three rulers with the name "Herod" in Luke-Acts a composite character? Frank Dicken explores their narrative similarities and interprets them as a single character in light of other examples of conflation in Jewish and early Christian literature."--Provided by publisher.

Author : Pyung Soo Seo
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1498200559
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Luke's Jesus in the Roman Empire and the Emperor in the Gospel of Luke written by Pyung Soo Seo and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2015-03-20 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Luke provides valuable clues to an understanding of the religious and political power of the Roman Empire through Jesus's birth and trial accounts. Also, the book analyzes what role Luke's tax-related accounts play in relation to the emperor's authority. This volume presents a new argument: Luke emphasizes Jesus's interaction with tax collectors as a way of displaying his moral authority, seen in his intervening effectively with one of the most hated aspects of the empire, an aspect that the emperor was responsible for and should have dealt with. This analysis helps us examine Luke's portrayal of Jesus's authority with a focus on the titles "benefactor" and "savior." Comparisons and contrasts are to be made between Jesus and the emperor. Thus, this study discusses how Luke elevates Jesus's authority on the basis of his stance toward the emperor.

Author : Joshua Yoder
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110391422
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Representatives of Roman Rule written by Joshua Yoder and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2014-11-10 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Luke-Acts contains a wealth of material that is relevant to politics, and the relationship between Jesus and his followers and the Roman Empire becomes an issue at a number of points. The author's fundamental attitude toward Rome is hard to discern, however. The complexity of Luke's task as both a creative writer and a mediator of received tradition, and perhaps as well the author's own ambivalence, have left conflicting evidence in the narrative. Scholarly treatments of the issue have tended to survey in a relatively short scope a great amount of material with different degrees of relevance to the question and representing different proportions of authorial contribution and traditional material. This book attempts to make a contribution to the discussion by narrowing the focus to Luke's depiction of the Roman provincial governors in his narrative, interpreted in terms of his Greco-Roman literary context. Luke's portraits of Roman governors can be seen to invoke expectations and concerns that were common in the literary context. By these standards Luke's portrait of these Roman authority figures is relatively critical, and demonstrates his preoccupation with Rome's judgment of the Christians more than a desire to commend Roman rule.