The Arrogance of Nations: Reading Romans in the Shadow of Empire (Paul in Critical Contexts) (Hardback)
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Short Description for The Arrogance of Nations * A new and comprehensive reading of Romans within the context of Roman imperial ideology * Applies current methods of postcolonial criticism, rhetorical criticism, and people's history
Full description- Publisher: Augsburg Fortress
- Published: 24 July 2008
- Format: Hardback 224 pages
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- Categories: Classical History / Classical Civilisation | Religion & Politics | History Of Religion | Biblical Studies & Exegesis
- ISBN 13: 9780800638443 ISBN 10: 0800638441
- Sales rank: 569,687
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Full description for The Arrogance of Nations
Elliott offers a fresh and surprising reinterpretation of Paul's letter to the Romans in the context of Roman imperial ideology, bringing to the text the latest insights from classical studies, rhetorical criticism, postcolonial criticism, and people's history. By setting the letter alongside Roman texts (Cicero, Virgil, the Res Gestae of Augustus, Seneca, poets from the age of Nero, as well as later historians and satirists), Elliott provides a dramatic new reading of the letter as Paul's confrontation with the arrogance of empire ??? and with an emerging Christianity already tempted by the seductive ideology of imperial power. The Arrogance of Nations explores such topics as: Empire and the "obedience of faith"; Justice and the arrogance of nations; Mercy and the prerogatives of power; Piety and the scandal of an irreligious race; Virtue and the fortunes of peoples; and Paul and the horizon of the possible.
