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The Arrogance of Nations: Reading Romans in the Shadow of Empire is unavailable, but you can change that!

Elliott offers a fresh and surprising reinterpretation of Paul’s letter to the Romans in the context of Roman imperial ideology, bringing to the text the latest insights from classical studies, rhetorical criticism, postcolonial criticism, and people’s history. By setting the letter alongside Roman texts (Cicero, Virgil, the Res Gestae of Augustus, Seneca, poets from the age of Nero, as well as...

the historical record simply not intrude on the imaginative world this young acolyte of U.S. policy has learned to inhabit? The human-rights lawyer with our delegation asks what makes El Salvador a “success story.” She observes that the U.S.-brokered peace accords in El Salvador bestowed immunity from prosecution upon the military and civilian architects of twelve years of repression: the engineers of approximately 70,000 civilian deaths per U.N. estimates. She wonders aloud how that result squares
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