A Short Note on Seneca's "Hercules Furens" and the Imperial-Critical Reading of Hebrews
In Resisting Empire, Whitlark argues that the depiction of Jesus as a Herculean hero in Hebrews 'communicated covert anti-imperial notions to its audience'. This note draws on an imperial-critical reading of Hercules Furens to support Whitlark’s argument regarding how the author of Hebrews...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Peeters
[2020]
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Biblica
Year: 2020, Volume: 101, Issue: 2, Pages: 282-291 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Hebrews
/ Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, Philosophus -65, Hercules furens
/ Roman Empire
/ Criticism
B Herakles / Jesus Christus / Divinity / Apocalypticism (Motif) |
| IxTheo Classification: | AG Religious life; material religion BE Greco-Roman religions CD Christianity and Culture CG Christianity and Politics HC New Testament |
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