Irony of Power e-bog
436,85 DKK
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This volume engages the Gospel of Matthew in full awareness of its inherently political character. Weaver situates Matthew's version of the "e;good news of the kingdom"e; squarely within the "e;real world"e; of first-century Palestine and its occupying power, the Roman Empire. The essays here focus prominently and collectively on the issues of power and violence that not only pe...
E-bog
436,85 DKK
Forlag
Pickwick Publications
Udgivet
21 juni 2017
Længde
360 sider
Genrer
Christianity
Sprog
English
Format
epub
Beskyttelse
LCP
ISBN
9781498241472
This volume engages the Gospel of Matthew in full awareness of its inherently political character. Weaver situates Matthew's version of the "e;good news of the kingdom"e; squarely within the "e;real world"e; of first-century Palestine and its occupying power, the Roman Empire. The essays here focus prominently and collectively on the issues of power and violence that not only pervade the historically occupied Jewish community of first-century Palestine, but also are clearly visible throughout Matthew's narrative account. A "e;lower-level"e; reading of the Matthean text offers a bleak portrait of the overwhelming power and violence exerted by the Roman occupying authorities and their upper-echelon Jewish collaborators against the wider Jewish community of first-century Palestine. But an "e;upper-level"e;/"e;God's-eye"e; reading of Matthew's narrative consistently reveals the fundamental irony at the heart of the New Testament as a whole, of the Jesus story broadly conceived, and of Matthew's narrative account in specific. This irony overturns all humanly recognized definitions of "e;power"e; and demonstrates the astonishing "e;politics of God,"e; which defeats evident power through apparent powerlessness and overcomes violence through nonviolent initiatives.