Reactions to empire : sacred texts in their socio-political contexts /

Reactions to empire : sacred texts in their socio-political contexts / edited by John Anthony Dunne and Dan Batovici. - Tübingen : Mohr Siebeck, (c)2014. - 1 online resource (xii, 203 pages) - Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament. 2. Reihe ; 372 .

"This volume grew out of the third instalment of the St Andrews Graduate Conference for Biblical and Early Christian Studies ... organised as a seminar within the International Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, 7-11 July 2013 at St Andrews"--Page vii.

Includes bibliographies and index.

A place for socio-political oppressors at the end of history? : eschatological perspectives from 1 Enoch / Attitudes toward Seleucid imperial hegemony in the Book of Daniel / Between opposition to the Hasmoneans and resistance to Rome: the Psalms of Solomon and the Dead Sea scrolls / What the apostles did not see / Methodological considerations for the search of counter-imperial "echoes" in Pauline literature / Thwarting the enemies of God: contrasting the death of Herod and the resurrection of Jesus in Luke-Acts / "She who is in Babylon": 1 Peter and the hermeneutics of empire / The forgotten kingdom: miracle, the memory of Jesus, and counter-ideology to the Roman Empire / Resisting empire in early Christian martyrdom literature / Theologies of resistance: a re-examination of rabbinic traditions about Rome / Loren T. Stuckenbruck -- Amanda M. Davis Bledsoe -- Nadav Sharon -- Matthew V. Novenson -- Christoph Heilig -- Alexander P. Thompson -- David I. Starling -- Brandon Walker -- Candida R. Moss -- Bernie Hodkin.

Die Beiträger dieses Bandes beleuchten verschiedene Beispiele theologisch-politischer Visionen maßgeblicher Texte aus der Zeit des zweiten Tempels und des rabbinischen Judentums, sowie des frühen Christentums und bieten damit eine breitere Perspektive des Topos »heilige Texte in ihrem Kontext+quot;.



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Church history--Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600--Congresses.
Judaism--History--Post-exilic period, 586 B.C.-210 A.D.--Congresses.
Rabbinical literature--Congresses.


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