Jesus and the Empire of God: Royal Language and Imperial Ideology in the Gospel of Mark (Library of New Testament Studies |LNTS)
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Overview
Margaret Froelich examines the Gospel of Mark using political and empire-critical methodologies, following postcolonial thinkers in perceiving a far more ambivalent message than previous pacifistic interpretations of the text. She argues that Mark does not represent an entirely new way of thinking about empire or cosmic structures, but rather exhibits concepts and structures with which the author and his audience are already familiar in order to promote the Kingdom of God as a better version of the encroaching Roman Empire.
Froelich consequently understands Mark as a response to the physical, ideological, and cultural displacement of the first Roman/Judean War. By looking to Greek, Roman, and Jewish texts to determine how first-century authors thought of conquest and expansion, Froelich situates the Gospel directly in a historical and socio-political context, rather than treating that context as a mere backdrop; concluding that the Gospel portrays the Kingdom of God as a conquering empire with Jesus as its victorious general and client king.
- Examines the Gospel of Mark using political and empire-critical methodologies
- Suggests that Mark's audience was already familiar with concepts and structures about empire
- Concludes that the Gospel of Mark portrays the Kingdom of God as a conquering empire
- Empire Criticism
- Kingdom and Imperium
- Rulership
- Military and Conquest
- Salvation
- Jesus as the Son of God
- The Values of Empire
- Title: Jesus and the Empire of God: Royal Language and Imperial Ideology in the Gospel of Mark (Library of New Testament Studies |LNTS)
- Author: Margaret Froelich
- Series: Library of New Testament Studies
- Publisher: T&T Clark
- Pages: 192
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- ISBNs: 9780567700841, 0567700844
- Resource ID: LLS:JESUSEMPIREGOD
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-30T00:51:48Z