RT Article
T1 Hybridity and Reading Romans 13
JF Journal for the study of the New Testament
VO 31
IS 2
SP 157
OP 178
A1 Marshall, John W. 1966-
LA English
YR 2008
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1776993837
AB Interpreters of Paul have made substantial progress in identifying anti- or counter-imperial strands in the writings of the apostle. In many cases, postcolonial theory has been an important resource for such interpretations. It has emphasized the imperial (or colonial) character of Roman rule and provided avenues of analysis of resistant action and discourse that are well grounded in theoretical and comparative context. Postcolonialism, however, does more than identify and valorize resistance; it also attends to the discourses of affiliation that colonial subjects so often generate. Homi Bhabha's articulation of `hybridity' as a rubric under which to understand the relationship between resistant and affiliative responses by colonial subjects enables a deeper understanding of Paul specifically in that area that the politically engaged readings of Paul have made even more enigmatic, namely the relationship of the affiliative Rom. 13.1-7 to the apostle's evidently resistant discourse elsewhere in his literary corpus.
K1 Roman Empire
K1 Resistance
K1 Postcolonialism
K1 Hybridity
K1 Homi Bhabha
K1 Colonialism
DO 10.1177/0142064X08098279