Transient apostle : Paul, travel, and the rhetoric of empire / Timothy Luckritz Marquis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Luckritz Marquis, Timothy.

Series:

Synkrisis.

Synkrisis

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Paul, the Apostle, Saint--Travel.

Paul.

Apostles.

Travel--History--To 1500.

Travel.

Rome--Description and travel.

Rome.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 196 pages)

Place of Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press, c2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In a significant reevaluation of Paul's place in the early Christian story, Timothy Luckritz Marquis explores the theme of travel in the apostle's correspondence. He casts Paul's rhetorical strategies against the background of Augustus's age, when Rome's wealth depended on conquests abroad, the international commerce they facilitated, and the incursion of foreign customs and peoples they brought about. In so doing, Luckritz Marquis provides an explanation for how Paul created, maintained, and expanded his local communities in the larger, international Jesus movement and shows how Paul was a product of the material forces of his day. "This is the single most sophisticated book on Paul to be written within the paradigms of contemporary critical thought. By integrating its extensive, erudite, and compelling citations of the Greco-Roman world in which Paul was writing with post-colonial and post-Marxist thinking, it makes real progress in understanding Paul's letters."-Daniel Boyarin

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Preface

Abbreviations

Introduction

1. Traveling Leaders of the Ancient Mediterranean

2. Travel, Suicide, and Self-Construction

3. The Wandering, Foreign God of Israel

4. Delivering the Spirit

5. Whether Home or Away

6. Ambassadors of God's Empire

Conclusion

Notes

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781299483545

1299483542

9780300187427

0300187424

OCLC:

842848554