The Roman Empire In Lukes Narrative
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Author | : Kazuhiko Yamazaki-Ransom |
Publisher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 2010-05-27 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0567364399 |
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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 |
Total Pages | : 254 |
Release | : 2006-03-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9047409094 |
Download The Reign of God and Rome in Luke's Passion Narrative Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
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 | : Pyung-Soo Seo |
Publisher | : James Clarke & Company |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 2015-08-27 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0227904907 |
Download Luke's Jesus in the Roman Empire and the Emperor in the Gospel of Luke Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
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 | : Michael Kochenash |
Publisher | : Fortress Academic |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2020 |
Genre | : History: Ancient |
ISBN | : 9781978707368 |
Download Roman Self-representation and the Lukan Kingdom of God Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
"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 | : Christy Cobb |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 247 |
Release | : 2019-04-25 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 3030056899 |
Download Slavery, Gender, Truth, and Power in Luke-Acts and Other Ancient Narratives Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
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 | : Joel B. Green |
Publisher | : Mohr Siebeck |
Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 2020-11-05 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 3161565509 |
Download Luke as Narrative Theologian Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
"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 |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2014-10-09 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9783161532542 |
Download Herod as a Composite Character in Luke-Acts Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
"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 |
Total Pages | : 226 |
Release | : 2015-03-20 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1498200559 |
Download Luke's Jesus in the Roman Empire and the Emperor in the Gospel of Luke Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
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 |
Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 2014-11-10 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 3110391422 |
Download Representatives of Roman Rule Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
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.
Author | : Steven James Beardsley |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 255 |
Release | : 2012 |
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Download Luke's Narrative Agenda Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
This dissertation examines Luke's use of kyrios within his narratives of the Gospel and the Acts of the Apostles. Luke reached back into the common religious cultural context of the early Christians where he obtained his understanding of kyrios as Yahweh from the Greek Jewish Scriptures (Chapter 1). When Luke and his Jewish audience heard kyrios, they first understood it to mean Yahweh. Luke was also writing in the larger cultural context of the Greco-Roman world and the Roman Empire, which was pervasively informed by the imperial cult (Chapter 2). Luke and his Greco-Roman audience (including his Jewish audience) instinctively recognized that kyrios' most obvious Greco-Roman referent was the emperor. Based on these identities of kyrios, Luke used his Gospel as the narrative canvas on which to develop and progressively reveal the identity of Jesus as Yahweh because he is kyrios (Chapter 3). Luke then took this established identity and made an overt political claim that Jesus is superior to the emperor as a god because he is Lord of all (Chapter 4). Luke's narrative agenda not only embraced the Jewish roots from which Christianity was born, it also challenged the environment in which it would thrive and ultimately triumph. For Luke, the identity of Jesus was profoundly clear. Jesus was Yahweh, the Lord God of Israel, born a human being and as such he explicitly replaced Caesar as Lord of all.