John and Empire: Initial Explorations (2008 Carter), book

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John and Empire: Initial Explorations (2008) is a book by Warren Carter.

Abstract

"In this significant and innovative contribution, Warren Carter explores John's Gospel as a work of imperial negotiation in the context of Ephesus, capital of the Roman province of Asia. Carter employs multiple methods, rejects sectarian scenarios, and builds on other Christian writings and recent studies of diaspora synagogues that combined participationist lifestyles with observance of distinctive practices to argue that imperial negotiation was a contested issue for late first-century Jesus-believers. While a number of Jesus-believers probably lived societally-accommodated lives, John's Gospel employs a "rhetoric of distance" to urge much less accommodation and to create an alternative "anti-society" for followers of Jesus crucified by the empire but vindicated by God. In addition to establishing this tense historical setting, chapters identify various arenas and strategies of imperial negotiation in wide-ranging discussions of the gospel's genre, plot, Christological titles, developing traditions, eternal life, the image of God as father, ecclesiology, Jesus' conflict with Pilate, and resurrection and ascension."--Publisher description.

Editions

Published in New York, NY: T&T Clark, 2008.

Contents

Invisible Rome : reading John's Gospel -- Synagogues, Jesus-believers, and Rome's empire : bridges and boundaries -- Expressions of Roman power in Ephesus -- Negotiating the imperial present by turning to the past : Artemis, Abraham, Moses, and Jesus wisdom -- Genre as imperial negotiation : ancient biography and John's Gospel -- The plot of John's Gospel -- Images and titles for Jesus in the Roman imperial context -- Eternal Rome and eternal life -- John's father and the emperor as father of the fatherland -- The sacred identity of John's Jesus-believers -- The governor and the King/Emperor : Pilate and Jesus (John 18:28-19:22) -- Where's Jesus? apotheosis and ascension.

External links

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