Class Struggle in the New Testament
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Class Struggle in the New Testament

  1. 299 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Class Struggle in the New Testament

About this book

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.

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Information

Publisher
Fortress Academic
Year
2018
eBook ISBN
9781978784970
Edition
1
Topic
Theology & Religion
Subtopic
Ancient History

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Figures and Diagrams
  3. Abbreviations
  4. Preface
  5. Chapter One. Class Struggle in the New Testament!
  6. Chapter Two. Jesus, the Temple, and the Crowd: A Way Less Traveled
  7. Chapter Three. Romans Go Home?: The Military as a Site of Class Struggle in the Roman East and New Testament
  8. Chapter Four. Peasant Plucking in Mark: Conceptual and Material Issues
  9. Chapter Five. IVDAEA DEVICTA: The Gospels as Imperial “Captive Literature”
  10. Chapter Six. Fishing for Entrepreneurs in the Sea of Galilee?: Unmasking Neoliberal Ideology in Biblical Interpretation
  11. Chapter Seven. Hand of the Master: Of Slaveholders and the Slave-Relation
  12. Chapter Eight. Populist Features in the Gospel of Matthew
  13. Chapter Nine. Troubling the Retainer Class in Antiquity
  14. Chapter Ten. Rethinking Pauline Gift and Social Functions: Class Struggle in Early Christianity?
  15. Chapter Eleven. The Origin of Archangels: Ideological Mystification of Nobility
  16. Chapter Twelve. Christian Origins and the Specter of Class: Locating Class Struggle in the New Testament Today
  17. Bibliography
  18. Index
  19. About the Contributors