Harker The Colonizers' Idols

Paul, Galatia, and Empire in New Testament Studies
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-3-16-155904-4
Verlag: Mohr Siebeck
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 255 Seiten, Format (B × H): 232 mm x 155 mm

Reihe: Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament

In this work, Christina Harker deconstructs the prevailing treatment of the New Testament as anti-imperial by contextualizing both New Testament scholarship and the Galatian experience within imperialist discourses that survived the dissolution of conventional empires in the twentieth century. She critiques simplistic treatments of empire as post-imperial (that is, replicating patterns of imperialist ideology, albeit unwittingly). To solve the problem, a new interpretation of Galatians is proposed that reworks and complicates the portrait of the Galatians themselves, rather than Paul, within what then emerges as a diverse social world peopled by complex individuals with heterogeneous social and cultural identities. The author is thus able to show how New Testament scholars who rehabilitate the Bible and Paul as anti-empire perpetuate the same imperialist modes of interpretation they seek to repudiate.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Harker, Christina

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Bibelwissenschaften Neues Testament: Exegese, Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Systematische Theologie Befreiungstheologie

Über Autor(innen)

Harker, Christina
Born 1984; 2006 BA and 2007 MA Durham; 2015 PhD Yale University; 2015-16 Visiting Assistant Professor at Princeton Theological Seminary; since 2016 at Bern University.