Today's new book is "The Apostle and the Empire" by @ChristophHeilig in which he re-enters the debate about whether Paul is critical of empire.
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I am not a Paul specialist so suspect others will have much more well-informed opinions, but I found it helpful for getting a sense of the ongoing debate. He engages Wright, Barclay, and newer voices like @LauraRbnsn
I am not a Paul specialist so suspect others will have much more well-informed opinions, but I found it helpful for getting a sense of the ongoing debate. He engages Wright, Barclay, and newer voices like @LauraRbnsn
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The strength for me was the exegetical part on 2 Cor 2:14 where Heilig masterfully puts material and wider literary sources into conversation with the text.
The strength for me was the exegetical part on 2 Cor 2:14 where Heilig masterfully puts material and wider literary sources into conversation with the text.
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I have a vague recollection of Margaret Mitchell also pressing on the political procession nuances of θριαμβευοντι, but that was in a grad school class years ago so no one quote me on that!
The part of Claudius was new to me and super interesting.
I have a vague recollection of Margaret Mitchell also pressing on the political procession nuances of θριαμβευοντι, but that was in a grad school class years ago so no one quote me on that!
The part of Claudius was new to me and super interesting.
Side note: I found it unusual for a book length project to engage so heavily with an article and, having not read the original NTS article by @LauraRbnsn, can only assume it was so brilliant is warranted this level of engagement. ;-)
5/ Lastly, @ChristophHeilig ends with some implications and questions about "blind spots" for academics, the limitations of commentaries, and other matters that might be of interest to biblical scholars outside the Paul world!
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