The Arrogance of Nations
by Elliott, NeilEdition: Reprint
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Pub. Date: 2010-10-01
Publisher(s): Fortress Pr
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Summary
The Paul in Critical Contexts Series offers cutting-edger reexaminations of Paul through the lenses of power, gender, and ideology. Book jacket.
Author Biography
Neil Elliott, an Episcopal priest, teaches biblical studies at United. Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities and Metropolitan State University in Minneapolis. He is the author of Liberating Paul (Fortress ed. 2005) and The Rhetoric of Romans (Fortress ed. 2006).
Table of Contents
| Timeline | p. x |
| Illustrations | p. xiii |
| Preface | p. xv |
| Introduction: A Perennial Question | p. 1 |
| Port-au-Prince, Haiti, August 1995 | p. 1 |
| Posing a Perennial Question | p. 3 |
| Hannibal, Missouri, March 2003 | p. 5 |
| Reading Differently | p. 6 |
| Toward a Contemporary Sachkritik | p. 9 |
| Reading the signs of the times | p. 9 |
| An ideological-critical reading | p. 11 |
| Agreements and divergences | p. 13 |
| The Rhetoric of Romans and the Rhetoric of Rome | p. 16 |
| Rhetorical-critical dead ends | p. 16 |
| Romans as exhortation | p. 19 |
| Reading "voice under domination" | p. 21 |
| Imperivm: Empire and the "Obedience of Faith" | p. 25 |
| The Battle for Hearts and Minds | p. 25 |
| Winning Hearts and Minds in Ancient Rome | p. 27 |
| The contours of Roman imperial ideology | p. 28 |
| The hidden transcript of the powerful: The inevitability of rule by force | p. 30 |
| The hidden transcript of the subordinate: Imperial violence seen from below | p. 33 |
| Currents of protest | p. 34 |
| The Dialectic of Defiance and Caution | p. 36 |
| The public transcript: Contesting the relation of coercion and consent | p. 37 |
| The Public Transcript in Nero's Rome | p. 40 |
| Winning Hearts and Minds in Romans A call for obedience | p. 44 |
| Beyond Ethnic Tensions | p. 47 |
| Ideological Constraints in Romans | p. 50 |
| Ivstitia: Justice and the Arrogance of Nations | p. 59 |
| Empire and the Crisis of Impunity | p. 59 |
| A "Declaration of War" in Romans | p. 61 |
| The argumentative aspect of Romans 1:3-4 | p. 62 |
| Rome, 54C.E. | p. 65 |
| Nero's succession in the public transcript | p. 66 |
| Nero's succession in the hidden transcript of the powerful | p. 68 |
| An alternative offstage transcript: The view from Romans | p. 70 |
| Interpreting Paul's Gospel: Choosing Sides | p. 72 |
| The justice of God | p. 75 |
| A critique of imperial injustice | p. 77 |
| Justice and the Crisis of Impunity | p. 83 |
| Clementia: Mercy and the Prerogatives of Power | p. 87 |
| The Prerogatives of Power | p. 88 |
| The mercy of the Augusti | p. 89 |
| Death and Taxes | p. 91 |
| Alexandria, 38-41 C.E. | p. 93 |
| Rome, 49 C.E. | p. 96 |
| Rome, 54 C.E. | p. 99 |
| A Warning against Presuming on Mercy (Romans 2-3) | p. 100 |
| Paul's dialogue with a Judean | p. 101 |
| Diatribe in the apostrophe to the Judean (2:17-24) | p. 103 |
| Diatribe in the Judean's response (3:1-9) | p. 105 |
| The Manifestation of Mercy in History | p. 107 |
| Israel's "stumbling" | p. 107 |
| The typological reading of Romans 9-11 | p. 111 |
| The Present, the Future, and the Mercy of God | p. 114 |
| A thrown race | p. 117 |
| Pietas: Piety and the Scandal of an Irreligious Race | p. 121 |
| Ancestry, Destiny, and Piety in Roman Perspective | p. 121 |
| Appropriating the iconography of pietas | p. 122 |
| The pietas of Aeneas | p. 125 |
| Abraham "Our Forefather" | p. 128 |
| Abraham's ancestry from a Judean perspective | p. 130 |
| Using Abraham to think ethnicity | p. 132 |
| The destiny of an "impious" people | p. 134 |
| Abraham as Aeneas's Rival | p. 136 |
| Piety and "vindication through works" | p. 138 |
| Virtvs: Virtue and the Fortunes of Peoples | p. 143 |
| Virtue at the End of History | p. 143 |
| An apocalyptic logic of dissent | p. 146 |
| An ethic of solidarity | p. 150 |
| The force of ideological constraint in Romans 13:1-7 | p. 152 |
| Living at the End of History | p. 157 |
| The ghosts in Romans | p. 159 |
| Epilogue | p. 163 |
| Abbreviations | p. 167 |
| Notes | p. 171 |
| Indexes | p. 216 |
| Ancient Literature | p. 216 |
| Modern Authors | p. 219 |
| Selected Topics | p. 221 |
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