Useful for students, scholars, and everyday readers, this volume holds a wealth of resources that enhance your understanding of the early Roman Empire. Mark Reasoner’s careful selections, presented with introduction and commentary, offer crucial context for study of New Testament writings.
Roman Imperial Texts includes freshly translated public speeches, official inscriptions, annals, essays, poems, and documents of veiled protest from the Empire’s subject peoples. All texts and images come from the reigns of the emperors from Augustus to Hadrian (27 BC–AD 138), making them pertinent contemporaneous texts. These sources allow New Testament students to contextualize what they read, prompting them to consider how the texts relate to the Roman Empire and how Christian communities came to relate to the state.
As Reasoner notes in his introduction, “A look at the texts and images from the Roman Principate that are roughly contemporary with the New Testament allows one to understand with more precision how [New Testament] texts present Jesus as God’s Son, who brought good news for humanity, what functions the early churches reflected in the New Testament fulfilled and what challenges they experienced, and how the early Christians, as seen in the book of Revelation, experienced the expanding and tightening hold of Rome on their lives.”
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