ABOUT THIS BOOK
This volume presents a batch of incisive new essays on the relationship between Roman imperial power and ideology and Christian and Jewish life and thought within the empire. Employing diverse methodologies that include historical criticism, rhetorical criticism, postcolonial criticism, and social historical studies, the contributors offer fresh perspectives on a question that is crucial for our understanding not only of the late Roman Empire, but also of the growth and change of Christianity and Judaism in the imperial period.

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Outi Lehtipuu is an adjunct professor and Academy Research Fellow at the University of Helsinki.Michael Labahn is teachings as extraordinary professor at Martin-Luther University Halle. He is co-editor with Lehtipuu of the volume People under Power: Early Jewish and Christian Responses to the Roman Empire (AUP 2015).

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Table of ContentsPart A: Religious Minorities and the Roman RuleGeorge Brooke, University of ManchesterThe Kittim and Hybridity in the Dead Sea ScrollsBirgit van der Lans, University of GroningenThe Politics of Exclusion: Expulsions of Jews and Others from the Roman CommunityHeidi Wendt, Brown University“Ea Superstitione”: Christian Martyrdom and the Regulation of Independent Religious SpecialistsPaul Middleton, University of ChesterNoble Death or Death Cult? Pagan Criticism of Early Christian MartyrdomNóra Dávid, University of Vienna, Institute for Jewish Studies emoria Iudati Patiri – New Directions in the Study of Jews in Roman PannoniaPart B: Anti-Imperialism in the New Testament and Other Early Christian WritingsJustin Hardin, University of OxfordAnti-Imperial Polemic in Paul? Romans 13.1-7 as a Test CaseAnders Klostergaard Petersen, University of AarhusPolitics in Paul: Scholarly Phantom or Actual Textual Phenomenon?Martin Meiser, University of SaarlandThe Gospel of Mark and Criticism toward the Roman Empire: A Look at the History of Interpretation (in German)Marco Frenschkowski, University of LeipzigOverturning Mythologies of Empire: Nero Redivivus in Revelation, the Sibylline Oracles and Other SourcesMark R.C. Grundeken, Katholieke Universiteit LeuvenThe Shepherd of Hermas and the Roman Empire