Jeremy L Williams

Criminalization in Acts of the Apostles

Race, Rhetoric, and the Prosecution of an Early Christian Movement

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Produktbeschreibung

"Acts of the Apostles presents Roman officials and militarized police criminalizing, prosecuting, and incarcerating a movement of Jesus followers. This book brings Acts into conversation with ancient and modern understandings of crime by tending to laws and by exploring how different writers portray the criminalized"--

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 325
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Oktober 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 535g
• ISBN-13: 9781009366373
• ISBN-10: 1009366378
• Artikelnr.: 68802964

Autorenporträt

Jeremy L. Williams earned his Ph.D. in New Testament and Early Christianity at Harvard University. He also graduated from Yale University Divinity School, where he received the Henry Hallam Tweedy Prize, the highest prize awarded to its graduates. He is a steering committee member of the Rhetoric in Early Christianity section of the Society of Biblical Literature.

Inhaltsangabe

I: 1. The analysis for rhetorical criminalization (ARC); 2. Analyzing
structures in Ancient Roman and Jewish Criminalizing Discourses; 3.
Analyzing stories and myths in Ancient Roman and Jewish criminalizing
discourses; II: 4. 'I am a Human': criminal classification of humans and
racializing assemblages in Acts; 5. 'Before the Court' and the confines of
judicial structures in Acts and Callirhoe; 6. 'The Foundation of the Prison
Shook' and the critical analysis of Apollo's, Dionysus', and Acts' myths;
7. 'Not Lawful for Romans' and the commitments of Roman elites in Acts.