RT Article
T1 Exiles, Not Enemies: Petrine Self-Determination in the Face of Empire
JF Religions
VO 15
IS 11
A1 King, Fergus J. 1962-
LA English
YR 2024
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1908262109
AB Exile was part of the juridical system of the late Republican and early Imperial Rome. 1 Pet 2.11 adopts the language of exile to identify its audience’s place within the world. Subsequent verses indicate a disparity between their own place and the world, or wider community, but fall short of rejecting wholesale the apparatus of the Roman state and its socio-political conventions. The apparent self-identification of the community as exiles is a potential claim for autonomy, self-determination, and high status. Claims for exile in the context of the Diaspora (1 Pet 1.1) might also embrace a claim to be considered Jewish, members of an ancient tradition protected by long precedent, and so protected from some legal threats.
K1 Second Temple Judaism
K1 early Imperial Rome
K1 enmity
K1 Exile
K1 1 Peter
DO 10.3390/rel15111370