Roman Imperial Texts: A Sourcebook - Softcover

Mark Reasoner

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0800699114 ISBN 13: 9780800699116

Publisher: 1517 Media; Fortress Press, 2013

Synopsis

A selection of the most important sources for the cultural and political context of the early Roman Empire and the New Testament writings, Roman Imperial Texts includes freshly translated public speeches, official inscriptions, annals, essays, poems, and documents of veiled protest from the Empires subject peoples all introduced by Mark Reasoner.

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Review:

There is currently a great deal of debate about the ways in which the New Testament writers responded to the Roman Empire. To understand and assess the debate it is vital for students (and scholars!) to encounter at first hand the texts and artefacts that inform us about that imperial context. With extensive quotation of primary sources and well-informed commentary and explanation, Mark Reasoner has provided an excellent sourcebook to enable us to do just that. This is a very welcome resource. --David G. Horrell, University of Exeter

This book is a long-needed and essential tool for scholars, teachers, and students who explore the rise of Christianity from the grandeur that was Rome. A helpful introduction explains the contested place of Roman Imperial sources in New Testament scholarship and argues persuasively that careful attention to sources such as these is an important, too often neglected, stimulus for assessing ways in which the New Testament includes or omits Rome in its multiple frames of reference. The book is an especially welcome enhancement of the Roman sources collected in more general New Testament backgrounds anthologies and will be as useful in the classroom as in the study. --Alexandra Brown, Washington and Lee University

About the Author:

Mark Reasoner is associate professor of theology at Marion University in Indianapolis. He is the author of Romans in Full Circle: A History of Interpretation (2005) and The Strong and the Weak: Romans 14.1 15.13 in Context (2004) and, with Neil Elliott, Documents and Images for the Study of Paul (Fortress Press, 2010).

About this edition

• Publisher: 1517 Media; Fortress Press
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0800699114
• ISBN 13: 9780800699116
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224