Matthew and Empire: Initial Explorations (2001 Carter), book

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Matthew and Empire: Initial Explorations (2001) is a book by Warren Carter.

Abstract

"Although New Testament scholars have examined Paul's writings and their relationship to the Roman empire and its imperial policies and writings, they have focused little attention on ways in which the Gospels were influenced by that imperialism. In Matthew and Empire, Warren Carter argues that Matthew's Gospel protests Roman imperialism by asserting that God's purposes and will are performed not by the empire and emperor but by Jesus and his community of disciples. Carter makes the claim for reading Matthew this way against the almost exclusive emphasis on the relationship with the synagogue that has long characterized Matthean scholarship. He established Matthew's imperial context by examining Roman imperial ideology and material presence in Anitoch, the traditional provenance for Matthew. Carter argues that Matthean Christology, which presents Jesus as God's agent, is shaped by claims - and protests against those claims - that the emperor and the empire are God's agents. He pays particular attention to the Gospel's central irony, namely that in depicting God's ways and purposes, the Gospel employs the very imperial framework that it resists. Matthew and Empire challenges traditional readings of Matthew and encourage fresh perspectives in Matthean scholarship."--Publisher description.

Editions

Published in Harrisburg, PA : Trinity Press International, 2001.

Contents

The Roman imperial system. Constructing the Roman imperial system -- Roman imperial theology -- Rome's empire, Matthews' Gospel, and Antioch -- Jesus, agent of God's salvific purposes. Matthew's presentation of Jesus -- "To save His people from their sins" (Matthew 1:21) : Rome's empire and Matthew's salvation as sovereignty. Counternarratives. Evoking Isaiah : why summon Isaiah in Matthew 1:23 and 4:15-16? -- Take my yoke not Rome's : Matthew 11:28-30 -- paying the tax to Rome as subversive praxis : Matthew 17:24-27 -- Pilate and Jesus : Roman jusitce all washed up (Matt 27:11-26) -- Conclusion.

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