The colonizers' idols : Paul, Galatia, and empire in New Testament studies / Christina Harker.

Format:

Book

Thesis/Dissertation

Author/Creator:

Harker, Christina, 1984- author.

Series:

Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament ; Reihe 2, 460.

Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament ; Reihe 2, 460

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Postcolonialism.

Bible. Galatians--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bible.

Bible. Galatians--Postcolonial criticism.

Paul, the Apostle, Saint.

Paul.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (257 pages).

Edition:

1. Aufl.

Place of Publication:

Tubingen, Germany : Mohr Siebeck, 2018.

Summary:

Christina Harker untersucht in dieser Studie die vorherrschende Meinung, dass das Neue Testament anti-imperial sei, indem sie die Forschung zum Neuen Testament sowie di Erfahrungen der Galater innerhalb imperialer Diskurse, die die Auflösung der konventionellen Kolonialreiche im 20. Jahrhundert überdauerten, verortet.

Contents:

Part I: Issues and Methodology

Chapter 1: Introduction

A. Framing the Problem

I. The Purpose of this Book

B. The Historical Problem of Gal. 4:10

I. The Jewish Identification

II. Problems with the Jewish Identification

C. Mapping Galatia

D. New Testament Studies, Empire and Postcolonialism

I. Postcolonialism, Empire Studies, Post-imperialism, and Liberation Theology

II. Methodology and Argument.

Chapter 2: Postcolonialism and Gal. 4:10

A. Introduction

B. Terms

I. Postcolonialism and the Ancient World

II. Hybridity, Mimicry and Related Concepts

C. Ancient, Modern and Post(-)colonia

I. Postcolonial Critical Historiography in Classics

II. Roman Imperialism and Resistance

III. Amicitia

D. Paul and Postcolonialism

I. Paul, the Alienated Colonizer

II. Self-Assigned Authority

III. Apostle by Divine Right

IV. Paul as Pater

E. Summary.

Part II: A Postcolonial Construction of Colonized Galatia

Chapter 3: Roman Galatia and the Social Contexts of Gal. 4:10

B. History of the Galatian Celts

I. Arrival and Operation as Mercenaries in Asia Minor

II. Pergamene and Roman Defeats

C. Roman Economic Exploitation

I. Taxes: Money, Time, Produce

II. New Settlements

III. Land Acquisition

IV. The Multiple Uses of Colonies

V. Corvée Labor

D. Life in the Roman Military

I. Galatian Troops

II. The Work of the Military in Galatia

III. Deployment Abroad

IV. Acculturation Once in the Military

E. Elites

I. Deiotarus and the Last Galatian Leaders

II. The Roles of Local Elites within the Roman System

III. Local Orators Vying for Imperial Favor

F. Summary.

Chapter 4: Imperial Cult and the Cultic Contexts of Gal. 4:10

B. Colonial Discourses at Work in Scholarship on the Imperial Cult

I. Methodological Issues within the Scholarly Literature

C. The Imperial Cult in Galatia

I. Neokoroi and Koina

II. Building the Imperial Temple at Ancyra

III. Spread of the Cult

D. The Imperial Cult and Local Elites

I. Conduits of Communication and Power

E. Imperial Cult and Roman Cultural Power

I. Expressing Rome's Power by Changing Calendar and Culture

F. The Emperor's Divinity at Home and Abroad

I. The Subordination of Roman and non-Roman Gods to the Emperor

II. The Political Side of Imperial Worship

G. The Imperial Cult, the Festival Calendar and The Military

I. Calendars of Imperial Worship as Modes of Acculturation

H. Imperial Cult, Resistance and Conquest

I. Summary.

Part III: Imperialism and Post-imperialism

Chapter 5: New Romans and New Apostles: Imperial Age Ideologues Constructing their Past

A. Reading the Present in the Past

B. British Imperial Discourses

I. European Powers and Their Roman Heritage

a) Inscribing the Roman Ancestry of the English

b) Britannia as Tabula Rasa

II. New Barbarians as Foils for New Romans

a) Imperial Ethnography as an Expression of Colonial Power

b) Race and Roman Heritage

III. Translatio Imperii

IV. Paternalism

C. Missionaries as New Apostles

I. Apostolic Heirs

II. Preaching to Heathens

III. A New Apostolic Obligation

D. Mission and Empire: Awkward Bedfellows?

Chapter 6: Galatians and Post-imperial Biblical Criticism

I. Nineteenth-century Impreial Scholarship

II. Social Politics in Contemporary Anti-Imperial Scholarship

B. Post-imperial and New Testament Studies

I. Empire Studies as a Form of Apologetics

II. A Good Empire in a Christian Empire

C. Paul as the Paradigmatic Christian Model

I. The Past: Paul as the Missionary Exemplar Spreading Christian Civilization

II. The Present: Paul as the Outsider-Leader Exemplar Spreading Christian Revolution

D. Binary Divisions of Humanity

I. The Past: The Binary of the Civilized Paul and the Barbaric Colonized Races

The Present: The Binary of the Rebel-Leader Paul and Barbaric Oppressors

E. Paternalism and Salvation

I. The Past: The Racial Caricature of Paul's Audiences as Incompetent and Ignorant

II. The Present: The Infantalization of Paul's Audiences and their Reduction to Props

Chapter 7: Conclusion: A Postcolonialist Reading of Gal. 4:10

B. Re-reading Gal. 4:10

I. Paul's Frustrated Expectations

C. Galatian Absorption into the Roman Empire

I. Imperial Worship in Galatia

II. Structural Changes Brought by Roman Rule

D. Reading Galatian Minicry and Hybridity as Resistance to Rome

I. Survival of Local Language

II. Survival of Local Cults

III. Violent Resistance in Asia Minor

IV. Resistance through Mimicry and Hybridity

V. Days, Months, Seasons, and Years

E. Reading "Error" as Resistance to Paul

I. Paul as a Colonizer

F. On Thinking from Monotheism

I. Paul's Misreading of his Audience

G. Concluding Thoughts on Empire and New Testament Studies.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (EBC, viewed March 7, 2018).

Thesis (Ph.D.) - Yale University, New Haven, 2015.

ISBN:

3-16-155904-5