Paul's 'spirit of adoption' in its Roman Imperial context
Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Chapter 1. 'A Spirit of Adoption' -- Introduction -- Methodological considerations -- Determination of influence: Echoes, allusions and overlaps -- A new assessment of Paul's argument given t...
| Résumé: | Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Chapter 1. 'A Spirit of Adoption' -- Introduction -- Methodological considerations -- Determination of influence: Echoes, allusions and overlaps -- A new assessment of Paul's argument given the destination of Paul's letter -- The plan for the work ahead ... -- Conclusion -- Chapter 2. Paul, Rome, Politics, and Religion -- Modern scholarship on Paul and Romans 8 -- Modern scholarship on Paul and politics in the first-century -- Modern scholarship on Roman religion -- Studies on Paul and the metaphor of adoption in Romans -- Modern scholarship on Pauline pneumatology -- Conclusion -- Chapter 3. The Roman Imperial Context: Politics, Religion and Family -- Introduction -- Adoption and family in the Roman Imperial context -- From Julius Caesar to Octavian: Divine honours, adoption and Imperial strategy -- Adoption to Augustus, the political and religious reconstruction of Augustan Rome -- Adoption and a plan for succession -- Genius and Numen in Roman religion -- The genius in Roman religion and the Imperial cult -- The representation of genius in Roman art -- Numen -- Roman household religion: A social location for Paul -- Sources for Roman domestic religion -- A description of Roman domestic religion -- Other domestic religious imagery -- Civic Imperial Iconography -- Roads and city design -- The Res Gestae -- Temples, inscriptions and dedications to the Imperial cult in Rome -- Numismatics as a testimony to Imperial ideology -- Conclusion -- Chapter 4. Romans 1-5 and Paul's Imperial 'Household' -- Introduction -- Identifying Paul's gentile readership for his Roman letter -- Reconstructing the origins of Paul's Roman audience -- Reimagining the Roman household -- The literary context of Romans and Paul's audience -- Paul's gentile audience in Romans 1-3. |
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| Description: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| ISBN: | 0567663892 |