Toward a postcolonial reading of the Epistle of James
Subtitle: James 2:1-13 in its Roman imperial context
By: by Ingeborg Mongstad-Kvammen
Series: Biblical interpretation series, 0928-0731 -- volume 119; Biblical interpretation series -- v. 119.
Publisher: Brill; BRILL
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9789004251861; 9789004251878
Subjects: Bible; Postkolonialismus; Bibel; Postcolonial criticism of sacred works; Postcolonial criticism; Sozialgeschichtliche Exegese; Zeithintergrund
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-237) and indexes.

Includes text in English, Greek, and Latin.
Table of contents: title: The Epistle of James : preliminary considerations; title: Situating the present investigation within recent Jamesian research; title: Social and cultural texture : a short overview of Roman political history and markers of social affiliation; title: Exegesis of James 2:1-13; title: Ideological texture : toward a postcolonial reading on James 2:1-13.