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Resisting Empire

Rethinking the Purpose of the Letter to "The Hebrews" [Hardback]

by Usa) Jason A. Whitlark (baylor University

    • Book Format

      Hardback

    • Publisher

      Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

    • Published

      July 2014

    • Weight

      527g

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    Product Description

    This book offers a fresh reading about the purpose for which Hebrews was written. It argues that Hebrews engages both the negative pressures (persecution) and positive attractions (honor/prosperity) of its audience's Roman imperial context. Consequently, the audience of Hebrews appears to be in danger of defecting to the pagan imperial context and not the Jewish synagogues as proposed by much of scholarship on Hebrews. Due to the imperial nature of these pressures, Hebrews obliquely critiques the imperial script according to the rhetorical expectations in the first-century Mediterranean world - namely, through the use of figured speech. This critique is the primary focus of Whitlark's project. Whitlark moves to on suggest that Hebrews functions much like Revelation, that is, to resist the draw of the Christians' Roman imperial context, in part, by providing a covert opposition to Roman imperial discourse. He offers a possible explanation for why Hebrews circulated widely in the early Christian movement and makes some suggestions for dating Hebrews and the ethnic/socio-economic make-up of the authorial audience of Hebrews.

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    • Book Format

      Hardback

    • Publisher

      Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

    • Published

      July 2014

    • Weight

      527g

    • Page Count

      248

    • Dimensions

      156 x 234 x 17 mm

    • ISBN

      9780567456014

    • ISBN-10

      0567456013

    • Eden Code

      4262091

    More Information

    • ISBN: 9780567456014

    • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

    • Release Date: July 2014

    • Weight: 527g

    • Dimensions: 156 x 234 x 17 mm

    • Eden Code: 4262091

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