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Galatians Re-imagined: Reading with the Eyes of the Vanquished is unavailable, but you can change that!

Brigitte Kahl brings to this insightful reading of Galatians a deep knowledge of the classical world and especially of Roman imperial ideology. The first wave of scholarship on the Roman imperial context of Paul’s letters raised important questions that only thorough treatments of individual letters can answer. Kahl sets the letter to the Galatians in the context of Roman perceptions of...

Great Altar and Enuma Elish. Our exploration of the amphitheater has revealed how the Roman games as mass medium of imperial ideology constructed civic self(hood) and oneness by immersing their spectators in powerful flesh-and-blood images of the other as enemy to be lawfully humiliated and eliminated, dehumanized, tortured, punished, and fought against. This is linked to a fundamentally religious dimension of the arenas as “megachurches” of the empire where the blood of the other/them was collectively
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