Reactions to empire
Subtitle: sacred texts in their socio-political contexts
By: edited by John Anthony Dunne and Dan Batovici
Contributors: Dunne, John Anthony, 1986- editor; Batovici, Dan, 1976- editor
Series: Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament. 2. Reihe -- 372; Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament -- 372.
Publisher: Mohr Siebeck
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Tübingen
Language: eng
Number of pages: 203
ISBN-13: 9783161534133
Subjects: Rabbinical literature; Judaism; Frühjudentum; Literatur; Bibel; Church history; Herrschaft; Fornkyrkan; Primitive and early church; Historia; Rabbinsk judendom; Congresses; Post-exilic period (Judaism); Ideologie; History; Judendom; Frühchristentum
Notes: Papers presented July 7-11, 2013 at International Meeting of Society of Biblical Literature, University of St. Andrews.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: A place for socio-political oppressors at the end of history? Eschatological perspectives from 1 Enoch / Loren T. Stuckenbruck; title: Attitudes toward Seleucid imperial hegemony in the Book of Daniel / Amanda M. Davis Bledsoe; title: Between opposition to the Hasmoneans and resistance to Rome: the Psalms of Solomon and the Dead Sea Scrolls / Nadav Sharon; title: What the apostles did not see / Matthew V. Novenson; title: Methodological considerations for the search of counter-imperial "echoes" in Pauline literature / Christoph Heilig; title: Thwarting the enemies of God: contrasting the death of Herod and the resurrection of Jesus in Luke-Acts / Alexander P. Thompson; title: "She who is in Babylon": 1 Peter and the Hermeneutics of Empire / David I. Starling; title: The forgotten kingdom: miracle, the memory of Jesus, and counter -ideology to the Roman Empire / Brandon Walker; title: Resisting Empire in early Christian martyrdom literature / Candida R. Moss; title: Theologies of resistance: a re-examination of Rabbinic traditions about Rome / Bernie Hodkin.