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This edited collection explores how the New Testament, specifically the four canonical Gospels, negotiate the Roman imperial world. Within this volume, scholars from a variety of interdisciplinary contexts come together, examining a particular aspect of the New Testament’s complex relationship with the Roman Empire. By incorporating literary studies, gender criticism, Jewish studies, and disability studies into their analysis, the essays herein provide fresh readings of these foundational texts. Jillian D. Nelson and Adam Winn demonstrate through this collection that the Roman imperial world functions as a critical context for scholarship on the New Testament, yielding new and exciting perspectives on the Gospel narratives.

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These essays show that questions of empire and imperialism remain vital in Gospel studies, and offer new vistas on more specific questions today. Not to be missed! * Neil Elliott, author of Liberating Paul: The Justice of God and the Politics of the Apostle (1994), The Arrogance of Nations: Reading Romans in the Shadow of Empire (2008), and Paul the Jew under Roman Rule (2024), among other works *

These essays show that questions of empire and imperialism remain vital in Gospel studies, and offer new vistas on more specific questions today. Not to be missed! * Neil Elliott, author of Liberating Paul: The Justice of God and the Politics of the Apostle (1994), The Arrogance of Nations: Reading Romans in the Shadow of Empire (2008), and Paul the Jew under Roman Rule (2024), among other works * This essay collection on the connections between the New Testament and the Roman empire advances the field of inquiry through providing readers with multiple accessible entry points, theoretical frameworks, historical comparisons, and exegetical propositions. Those interested in interdisciplinary explorations of canonical gospel narratives in their complex historical and cultural contexts will find much with which to think in this volume. A most welcome resource that charts future interpretive directions. * Davina C. Lopez, Loy H. Witherspoon Professor of Christian Origins, University of North Carolina at Charlotte * The shadow of the Roman Empire looms large in the composition of the New Testament Gospels. In these collected essays, these imperial contexts and subtexts are named in clarifying ways, analyzed in refreshing approaches, and interpreted anew, arguing together that critical attention to the many yet subtle ways the Empire inflected the Gospels remains a critical site of study for New Testament scholars today. * Eric D. Barreto, Princeton Theological Seminary *

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Jillian D. Nelson is Adjunct Instructor for Texas Christian University. Adam Winn is the S. Louis and Ann W. Armstrong Professor and Chair of the Department of Biblical and Religious Studies at Samford University

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