Matthew and Empire

Matthew and Empire
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Publisher : A&C Black
Total Pages : 264
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ISBN-10 : 156338342X
ISBN-13 : 9781563383427
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Book Synopsis Matthew and Empire by : Warren Carter

Download or read book Matthew and Empire written by Warren Carter and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2001-10-01 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In Matthew and Empire, Warren Carter argues that Matthew's Gospel protests Roman imperialism by asserting that God's purposes and will are performed not by the empire and emperor but by Jesus and his community of disciples. Carter makes the claim for reading Matthew this way against the almost exclusive emphasis on the relationship with the synagogue that has long characterized Matthean scholarship. He established Matthew's imperial context by examining Roman imperial ideology and material presence in Anitoch, the traditional provenance for Matthew. Carter argues that Matthean Christology, which presents Jesus as God's agent, is shaped by claims - and protests against those claims - that the emperor and the empire are God's agents. He pays particular attention to the Gospel's central irony, namely that in depicting God's ways and purposes, the Gospel employs the very imperial framework that it resists. Matthew and Empire challenges traditional readings of Matthew and encourage fresh perspectives in Matthean scholarship."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved


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