Class Struggle in the New Testament (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Myles, Robert J.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Class Struggle in the New Testament engages the political and economic realities of the first century to unmask the mediation of class through several New Testament texts and traditions. Essays span a range of subfields, presenting class struggle as the motor force of history by responding to recent debates, historical data, and new evidence on the political-economic world of Jesus, Paul, and the Gospels. Chapters address collective struggles in the Gospels; the Roman military and class; the usefulness of categories like peasant, retainer, and middling groups for understanding the world of Jesus; the class basis behind the origin of archangels; the Gospels as products of elite culture; the implication of capitalist ideology upon biblical interpretation; and the New Testament's use of slavery metaphors, populist features, and gifting practices. This book will become a definitive reference point for future discussion.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 314
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Dezember 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781978702080
• Artikelnr.: 55131890

Autorenporträt

Edited by Robert J. Myles - Contributions by Roland Boer; Alan H. Cadwallader; James G. Crossley; Neil Elliott; Deane Galbraith; Robert J. Myles; Christina Petterson; Sarah E. Rollens; Robyn Faith Walsh; Taylor Weaver; Bruce Worthington and Christopher B.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Class Struggle in the New Testament! Robert J. Myles 2. Jesus, the
Temple, and the Crowd: A Way Less Traveled Neil Elliott 3. Romans Go Home?
The Military as a Site of Class Struggle in the Roman East and New
Testament Christopher B. Zeichmann 4. Peasant Plucking in Mark: Conceptual
and Material Issues Alan H. Cadwallader 5. IVDAEA DEVICTA: The Gospels as
Imperial "Captive Literature" Robyn Faith Walsh 6. Fishing for
Entrepreneurs in the Sea of Galilee? Unmasking Neoliberal Ideology in
Biblical Interpretation Robert J. Myles 7. Hand of the Master: Of
Slaveholders and the Slave-Relation Roland Boer and Christina Petterson 8.
Populist Features in the Gospel of Matthew Bruce Worthington 9. Troubling
the Retainer Class in Antiquity Sarah E. Rollens 10. Rethinking Pauline
Gift and Social Functions: Class Struggle in Early Christianity? Taylor
Weaver 11. The Origin of Archangels: Ideological Mystification of Nobility
Deane Galbraith 12. Christian Origins and the Specter of Class: Locating
Class Struggle in the New Testament Today James G. Crossley