People under power : early Jewish and Christian responses to the Roman Empire / edited by Michael Labahn and Outi Lehtipuu.

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TextLanguage: English, German Series: Early Christianity in the Roman world ; 1.Publication details: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2015.Description: 1 online resource (259)Content type:

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9048521998
9789048521999
9789089645890
9089645896

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: People under Power : Early Jewish and Christian Responses to the Roman Power Empire.DDC classification:

296.09

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BR170 .P46 2015eb

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Contents:

Introduction: Christians, Jews, and Roman power -- Part 1. Jewish communities in the shadows of the empire. The Kittim and hints of hybridity in the Dead Sea Scrolls / George J. Brooke -- The politics of exclusion : expulsions of Jews and others from Rome / Birgit van der Lans -- Memoria Iudati patiri : some notes to the study of the beginnings of Jewish presence in Roman Pannonia / Nóra Dávid. Part II. Contextualizing New Testament texts with the empire. Imperial politics in Paul : scholarly phantom or actual textual phenomenon? / Anders Klostergaard Petersen -- Das Markusevangelium -- eine ideologie- und imperiumskritsche Schrift : ein blick in die Auslegungsgeschichte / Martin Meiser -- "Ein Beispiel habe ich euch gegeben ..." (John 13,15) : die Diakonie Jesu und die Diakonie der Christen in der johanneischen Fußwaschungserzählung als Konterkarierung römischer Alltagskultur / Klaus Scholtissek. Part III. Imperial idology and other early Christian texts. The Shepherd of Hermas and the Roman Empire / Mstk T.V. Htunfrkrn -- Noble death or death cult? : pagan criticism of early Christian martyrdom / Paul Middleton -- Nero redivivus as a subject of early Christian arcane teaching / Marco Frenschkowski.

Summary: How did the dominant ideology of the Roman Empire affect the lives of Jewish and Christian religious minority communities? Which word describes best the relations of ancient Judaism and early Christianity with the Roman Empire: antagonism, adaptation or indifference? This volume addresses these and related questions from fresh and varied perspectives using diverse methodological approaches, including rhetorical, postcolonial and historical studies as well as seminal source materials from all sides.

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English and German.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

880-01 Introduction: Christians, Jews, and Roman power -- Part 1. Jewish communities in the shadows of the empire. The Kittim and hints of hybridity in the Dead Sea Scrolls / George J. Brooke -- The politics of exclusion : expulsions of Jews and others from Rome / Birgit van der Lans -- Memoria Iudati patiri : some notes to the study of the beginnings of Jewish presence in Roman Pannonia / Nóra Dávid. Part II. Contextualizing New Testament texts with the empire. Imperial politics in Paul : scholarly phantom or actual textual phenomenon? / Anders Klostergaard Petersen -- Das Markusevangelium -- eine ideologie- und imperiumskritsche Schrift : ein blick in die Auslegungsgeschichte / Martin Meiser -- "Ein Beispiel habe ich euch gegeben ..." (John 13,15) : die Diakonie Jesu und die Diakonie der Christen in der johanneischen Fußwaschungserzählung als Konterkarierung römischer Alltagskultur / Klaus Scholtissek. Part III. Imperial idology and other early Christian texts. The Shepherd of Hermas and the Roman Empire / Mstk T.V. Htunfrkrn -- Noble death or death cult? : pagan criticism of early Christian martyrdom / Paul Middleton -- Nero redivivus as a subject of early Christian arcane teaching / Marco Frenschkowski.

How did the dominant ideology of the Roman Empire affect the lives of Jewish and Christian religious minority communities? Which word describes best the relations of ancient Judaism and early Christianity with the Roman Empire: antagonism, adaptation or indifference? This volume addresses these and related questions from fresh and varied perspectives using diverse methodological approaches, including rhetorical, postcolonial and historical studies as well as seminal source materials from all sides.

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