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Reading the political in Jewish and Christian texts /

"Anti-imperial" readings of ancient texts are popular, but are they right? What does it mean to engage in "political" interpretation of ancient texts? What can Biblical scholars learn from Classicists about the emperor cult? These are a few of the questions addressed in this volu...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Snyder, Julia A., 1980- (Editor ), Zamfir, Korinna (Editor ), Healey, Spencer (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leuven : Peeters Publishers & Booksellers, 2020.
Colección:Biblical tools and studies.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Reading the "political" in Jewish and Christian texts : an introduction / Korinna Zamfir
  • Section A: Religion and politics in Jewish texts and contexts. "Seek the welfare of the city where I have sent you into exile" : reflections on Jeremiah's instructions to the exiles in Jer 29,5-7 / Eberhard Bons
  • Für mehr Zuverlässigkeit Gottes: die Wächter an den Mauern Jerusalems (Jes 62,6-9) / Johannes Klein
  • "The pride of his people was Simon the High Priest" (Sir 50,1) : a leader, not just in the Temple? / Zoltán Oláh
  • Judas Maccabee in 2 Maccabees : "political" perspectives in 2 Maccabees / Barbara Schmitz
  • Good and bad rulers in Josephus / Jan Willem van Henten
  • Section B: Anti-Empire Christians? Herrscherkult und Neues Testament : ein Beitrag aus althistorischer Perspektive / Babett Edelmann-Singer
  • Anti-Gospel revisited / Sandra Huebenthal
  • Jesus und Vespasian? : das Markusevangelium als politisch interessiertes "Anti-Evangelium" zum Aufstieg der Flavier? / Tobias Nicklas
  • Jesus and the Roman State in Luke's Gospel : a contribution to the discussion about church and state / Hans Klein
  • Acts and Roman authorities / Martin Meiser
  • Conflict among Christians in the political setting of Asia Minor / Beate Kowalski
  • Apostles and politics in the Roman Empire / Julia A. Snyder
  • Reading the Apocalypse of Peter politically : depictions of Christ and Trajan / Michael Sommer
  • Section C: Reading the "Political" In contemporary contexts. Contemporary politics in ancient texts : some ways to read scholarship on Christian origins as ideological history / James G. Crossley
  • Biblische Hermeneutik in der Zeit des Kommunismus / Hans Klein.