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Empire in the New Testament / edited by Stanley E. Porter and Cynthia Long Westfall.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: McMaster New Testament studies ; 10.Publication details: Eugene, Or. : Pickwick Publications, c2011.Description: xiii, 305 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9781608995998 (pbk.)
  • 1608995992 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 270.1
LOC classification:
  • BS2545.I47 E46 2007
Contents:
Introduction: Empire, the New Testament, and beyond / Stanley E. Porter and Cynthia Long Westfall -- Old Testament context of David's costly flirtation with empire-building / Douglas K. Stuart -- Walking in the light of Yahweh: Zion and the empires in the book of Isaiah / Mark J. Boda -- Matthew and empire / Warren Carter -- King Jesus and his ambassadors : empire and Luke-Acts / Craig A. Evans -- "I have conquered the world" : the death of Jesus and the end of empire in the gospel of John / Tom Thatcher -- Paul confronts Caesar with the good news / Stanley E. Porter -- "This was not an ordinary death" : empire and atonement in the minor Pauline epistles / Matthew Forrest Lowe -- Running the gamut : the varied responses to empire in Jewish Christianity / Cynthia Long Westfall -- Church fathers and the Roman Empire / Gordon L. Heath.
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Papers presented at the 13th H.H. Bingham Colloquium on the New Testament held in 2007 at McMaster Divinity College, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Introduction: Empire, the New Testament, and beyond / Stanley E. Porter and Cynthia Long Westfall -- Old Testament context of David's costly flirtation with empire-building / Douglas K. Stuart -- Walking in the light of Yahweh: Zion and the empires in the book of Isaiah / Mark J. Boda -- Matthew and empire / Warren Carter -- King Jesus and his ambassadors : empire and Luke-Acts / Craig A. Evans -- "I have conquered the world" : the death of Jesus and the end of empire in the gospel of John / Tom Thatcher -- Paul confronts Caesar with the good news / Stanley E. Porter -- "This was not an ordinary death" : empire and atonement in the minor Pauline epistles / Matthew Forrest Lowe -- Running the gamut : the varied responses to empire in Jewish Christianity / Cynthia Long Westfall -- Church fathers and the Roman Empire / Gordon L. Heath.

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