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Peter Oakes has long been recognized for his illuminating use of Greco-Roman material culture and social-scientific criticism to interpret the New Testament. This volume combines his best work in a single volume and introduces a substantial new essay that challenges current scholarly approaches to paradoxical teachings of the New Testament. Of special interest to Oakes throughout this book is...

straightforwardly communicating the range of empire-related instructions and ideas appropriate to house-church life, from the life of obedience to authorities to the songs of the fall of Rome. The conclusion of this chapter is that the general structural situation of first-century Christian groups provides a satisfactory explanation for the range of New Testament texts on economic or empire-related issues: there is relatively little need to appeal to theories of texts
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