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The Colonizers' Idols: Paul, Galatia, and Empire in New Testament Studies

by Christina Harker

  • Paperback
  • Publisher: Mohr Siebeck
  • 15.6 x 24.2 x 1.3 cm

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In this work, Christina Harker deconstructs the prevailing treatment of the New Testament as anti-imperial by contextualizing both New Testament scholarship and the Galatian experience within imperialist discourses that survived the dissolution of conventional empires in the twentieth century. She critiques simplistic treatments of empire as post-imperial (that is, replicating patterns of imperialist ideology, albeit unwittingly). To solve the problem, a new interpretation of Galatians is proposed that reworks and complicates the portrait of the Galatians themselves, rather than Paul, within what then emerges as a diverse social world peopled by complex individuals with heterogeneous social and cultural identities. The author is thus able to show how New Testament scholars who rehabilitate the Bible and Paul as anti-empire perpetuate the same imperialist modes of interpretation they seek to repudiate.
The Colonizers' Idols: Paul, Galatia, and Empire in New Testament Studies and John for Everyone Part 1 : Chapters 1-10
John for Everyone Part 1 : Chapters 1-10The Colonizers' Idols: Paul, Galatia, and Empire in New Testament Studies
  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    Mohr Siebeck

  • Published

    February 2018

  • Weight

    445g

  • Dimensions

    15.6 x 24.2 x 1.3 cm

  • ISBN

    9783161550669

  • ISBN-10

    3161550668

  • Eden Code

    4708200

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