The Construction Of And Negotiation With The Roman Military In Matthews Gospel
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| Author | : John E. Christianson |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 382 |
| Release | : 2019 |
| Genre | : Bible |
| ISBN | : |
Using an empire-critical approach to read the Gospel of Matthew, I argue that the gospel writer constructs and negotiates Roman military power in a variety of ways. Matthew's narrative is filled with scenes that feature Roman military personnel (including soldiers, centurions, and allied rulers) and expressions of imperial power (including requisitioned labor and the threat and use of state-sanctioned violence against dissenting civilians). Matthew also portrays Jesus and his followers negotiating the Roman imperial context by avoidance, compliance, mimicry, non-violent resistance, and envisioning divine judgment/retribution and eschatological restoration. The result of this portrayal is a message of hope for those whom must cope with daily experiences of living under Roman rule: that in the work, message, resurrection, and eschatological return of Jesus God is already at work to establish an alternative and preferred reality, the Kingdom (Empire) of God.
| Author | : John E. Christianson |
| Publisher | : Fortress Academic |
| Total Pages | : 254 |
| Release | : 2022 |
| Genre | : Bible |
| ISBN | : 9781978712218 |
This book addresses the ways that the Gospel of Matthew portrays Roman military power. Christianson argues that Matthew seeks to help his audience negotiate imperial military control through strategies of avoidance, accommodation, non-violent resistance, mimicry, and dreams of divine retribution and eschatological fulfillment.
| Author | : F. Manjewa M'bwangi |
| Publisher | : Wipf and Stock Publishers |
| Total Pages | : 164 |
| Release | : 2022-04-26 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 1666710202 |
In this book, a socio-rhetorical analysis blending literary with social sciences approaches provides the exegetical leverage to explore Matthew's use of the Lord's Prayer in shaping the identity of his community in the antiquity. The book lays down a foundation for drawing insights from the Lord's Prayer concerning Christian norms, values, and traditions that are pertinent to pastors, students, researchers, and lecturers who are interested in exploring matters of identity in their communities, institutions, and society at large.
| Author | : Richard Horsley |
| Publisher | : Fortress Press |
| Total Pages | : 346 |
| Release | : 2010-03-01 |
| Genre | : Christian life |
| ISBN | : 1451416644 |
Dealing with a time when "Christians" were moving towards separation from the movement's Jewish origins, this inaugural volume of A People's History of Christianity tells "the people's story" by gathering together evidence from the New Testament texts, archaeology, and other contemporary sources. Of particular interest to the distinguished group of scholar-contributors are the often overlooked aspects of the earliest "Christian" consciousness: How, for example, did they manage to negotiate allegiances to two social groups? How did they deal with crucial issues of wealth and poverty? What about the participation of slaves and women in these communities? How did living in the shadow of the Roman Empire color their religious experience and economic values?
| Author | : John K. Riches |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 242 |
| Release | : 2005-06-15 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 9780567084583 |
In what sense does Matthew's Gospel reflect the colonial situation in which the community found itself after the fall of Jerusalem and the subsequent humiliation of Jews across the Roman Empire? To what extent was Matthew seeking to oppose Rome's claims to authority and sovereignty over the whole world, to set up alternative systems of power and society, to forge new senses of identity? If Matthew's community felt itself to be living on the margins of society, where did it see the centre as lying? In Judaism or in Rome? And how did Matthew's approach to such problems compare with that of Jews who were not followers of Jesus Christ and with that of others, Jews and Gentiles, who were followers? This is volume 276 in the Journal for the Study of the New Testament Supplement series and is also part of the Early Christianity in Context series. >
| Author | : Alexander Kyrychenko |
| Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter |
| Total Pages | : 240 |
| Release | : 2014-01-31 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 3110347261 |
Although Roman centurions appear at crucial stages in the Gospel of Luke and the Acts of the Apostles, the significance of the centurion’s office for the development of Luke’s story has not been adequately researched. To fill in that void, this study engages the relevant Greco-Roman and Jewish sources that reflect on the image of the Roman military and applies the findings to the analysis of the role of the Roman centurion in the narrative of Luke-Acts. It argues that contemporary evidence reveals a common perception of the Roman centurion as a principal representative of the Roman imperial power, and that Luke-Acts employs centurions in the role of prototypical Gentile believers in anticipation of the Christian mission to the Empire. Chapter 1 outlines the current state of the question. Chapter 2 surveys the background data, including the place of the centurion in the Roman military organization, the role of the Roman army as the basis of the ruling power, the army’s function in the life of the civilian community, Luke’s military terminology, and the Roman military regiments in Luke-Acts. Chapter 3 reviews Greco-Roman writings, including Polybius, Julius Caesar, Sallust, Livy, Velleius Paterculus, Tacitus, Appian, Cornelius Nepos, Plutarch, Suetonius, Plautus, Cicero, Virgil, Horace, Petronius, Quintilian, Epictetus, Juvenal, Fronto, Apuleius, as well as non-literary evidence. Chapter 4 engages the Jewish witnesses, including 1 Maccabees, the Dead Sea Scrolls, Jewish pseudepigrapha, Philo, Josephus, Talmudic sources, and non-literary sources. Chapter 5 examines the relevant accounts of Luke-Acts, focusing on Luke 7:1–10 and Acts 10:1–11:18. The Conclusion reviews the findings of the study and summarizes the results.
| Author | : Matthew Bunson |
| Publisher | : Infobase Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 657 |
| Release | : 2014-05-14 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1438110278 |
Not much has happened in the Roman Empire since 1994 that required the first edition to be updated, but Bunson, a prolific reference and history author, has revised it, incorporated new findings and thinking, and changed the dating style to C.E. (Common Era) and B.C.E. (Before Common Era). For the 500 years from Julius Caesar and the Gallic Wars in 59-51 B.C.E. to the fall of the empire in the west in 476 C.E, he discusses personalities, terms, sites, and events. There is very little cross-referencing.
| Author | : Warren Carter |
| Publisher | : T&T Clark |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2008-05-19 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 9780567028402 |
In this significant and innovative contribution, Warren Carter explores John's Gospel as a work of imperial negotiation in the context of Ephesus, capital of the Roman province of Asia. Carter employs multiple methods, rejects sectarian scenarios, and builds on other Christian writings and recent studies of diaspora synagogues that combined participationist lifestyles with observance of distinctive practices to argue that imperial negotiation was a contested issue for late first-century Jesus-believers. While a number of Jesus-believers probably lived societally-accommodated lives, John's Gospel employs a "rhetoric of distance" to urge much less accommodation and to create an alternative "anti-society" for followers of Jesus crucified by the empire but vindicated by God. In addition to establishing this tense historical setting, chapters identify various arenas and strategies of imperial negotiation in wide-ranging discussions of the gospel's genre, plot, Christological titles, developing traditions, eternal life, the image of God as father, ecclesiology, Jesus' conflict with Pilate, and resurrection and ascension. Carter has explored interactions between the emerging Christian movement and the Roman Empire in various articles and book-length studies such as Matthew and the Margins (Orbis), Matthew and Empire (Trinity Press International/Continuum), Pontius Pilate: Portraits of a Roman Governor (Liturgical), and The Roman Empire and the New Testament (Abingdon).
| Author | : Martin Luther King, Jr. |
| Publisher | : Beacon Press |
| Total Pages | : 168 |
| Release | : 2019-10-15 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 0807051977 |
The classic collection of Dr. King’s sermons that fuse his Christian teachings with his radical ideas of love and nonviolence as a means to combat hate and oppression. As Martin Luther King, Jr., prepared for the Birmingham campaign in early 1963, he drafted the final sermons for Strength to Love, a volume of his most well known homilies. King had begun working on the sermons during a fortnight in jail in July 1962. While behind bars, he spent uninterrupted time preparing the drafts for works such as “Loving Your Enemies” and “Shattered Dreams,” and he continued to edit the volume after his release. Strength to Love includes these classic sermons selected by Dr. King. Collectively they present King’s fusion of Christian teachings and social consciousness and promote his prescient vision of love as a social and political force for change.
| Author | : Matthew Symonds |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 268 |
| Release | : 2017-12-07 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1108383858 |
The Roman army enjoys an enviable reputation as an instrument of waging war, but as the modern world reminds us, an enduring victory requires far more than simply winning battles. When it came to suppressing counterinsurgencies, or deterring the depredations of bandits, the army frequently deployed small groups of infantry and cavalry based in fortlets. This remarkable installation type has never previously been studied in detail, and shows a new side to the Roman army. Rather than displaying the aggressive uniformity for which the Roman military is famous, individual fortlets were usually bespoke installations tailored to local needs. Examining fortlet use in north-west Europe helps explain the differing designs of the Empire's most famous artificial frontier systems: Hadrian's Wall, the Antonine Wall, and the Upper German and Raetian limites. The archaeological evidence is fully integrated with documentary sources, which disclose the gritty reality of life in a Roman fortlet.
