John E. Christianson
Matthew and the Roman Military: How the Gospel Portrays and Negotiates Imperial Power
Matthew and the Roman Military: How the Gospel Portrays and Negotiates Imperial Power
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John E. Christianson's book explores how the Gospel of Matthew addresses and negotiates Roman military power, offering strategies for coping with Roman Syria's military structures and networks of social power. It includes texts that address state-sanctioned violence, abuse of requisitioned labor, Jesus' response to a centurion's request, and soldiers' response to Jesus' death and resurrection. Interpretation of Matthew's narrative must account for the pervasive presence of the Roman military in the ancient world.
Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 254 pages
Publication date: 15 May 2024
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
The Gospel of Matthew portrays and negotiates Roman military power in various ways, according to John E. Christianson. Writing in the years following the Jewish War, Matthew offers strategies such as avoidance, accommodation, non-violent resistance, mimicry, and dreams of divine retribution and eschatological fulfillment to help his audience cope with life in Roman Syria. With an eye toward the ways that military structures and networks of social power functioned to increase imperial control over people and territory, Christianson shows how Matthew's strategies include ways to help his audience negotiate potentially dangerous encounters with Roman military personnel. This includes texts that address the possibility of state-sanctioned violence by Roman-aligned rulers Herod and Antipas, the abuse of requisitioned labor in Roman angaria, Jesus' response to the direct request of a centurion with opaque motivations, a vision of retribution on Roman eagles by the eschatological Son of Man, and soldiers' response to Jesus' death and resurrection as a prelude to divine overthrow of Roman military power. In all cases, this book demonstrates how interpretation of Matthew's narrative must account for the pervasive presence of the Roman military in the ancient world.
Weight: 399g
Dimension: 228 x 150 x 15 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781978712232
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