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Resurrection As Anti-Imperial Gospel

1 Thessalonians 1:9b-10 in Context

Resurrection As Anti-Imperial Gospel( )
Author: Pillar, Edward
Series title:Emerging Scholars Ser.
ISBN:978-1-4514-6968-4
Publication Date:Aug 2013
Publisher:1517 Media
Imprint:Fortress Press
Book Format:Digital (delivered electronically)
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Book Description:

Presuming that the heart of Paul's gospel announcement was the news that God had raised Jesus from the dead (as indicated in 1 Thessalonians 1:9b-10), Pillar explores the evidence in Paul's letter and in aspects of the Roman imperial culture in Thessalonica in order to imagine what that proclamation would have evoked for its first hearers. He argues that the gospel of resurrection would have been heard as fundamentally anti-imperial: Jesus of Nazareth was executed by means of the...
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Pages:320
Detailed Subjects: Religion / Christianity / General



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