The Colonizers' Idols

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Paul, Galatia, and Empire in New Testament Studies

Christina Harker(Autor*in)

Mohr Siebeck (Verlag)

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Erschienen im Februar 2018

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Cover
Acknowledgements
Contents
Part I: Issues and Methodology
Chapter 1: Introduction
A. Framing the Problem
I. The Purpose of this Book
B. The Historical Problem of Gal. 4:10
I. The Jewish Identification
II. Problems with the Jewish Identification
C. Mapping Galatia
D. New Testament Studies, Empire and Postcolonialism
I. Postcolonialism, Empire Studies, Post-imperialism, and Liberation Theology
II. Methodology and Argument
Chapter 2: Postcolonialism and Gal. 4:10
A. Introduction
B. Terms
I. Postcolonialism and the Ancient World
II. Hybridity, Mimicry and Related Concepts
C. Ancient, Modern and Post(-)colonial
I. Postcolonial Critical Historiography in Classics
II. Roman Imperialism and Resistance
III. Amicitia
D. Paul and Postcolonialism
I. Paul, the Alienated Colonizer
II. Self-Assigned Authority
III. Apostle by Divine Right
IV. Paul as Pater
E. Summary
Part II: A Postcolonial Construction of Colonized Galatia
Chapter 3: Roman Galatia and the Social Contexts of Gal. 4:10
A. Introduction
B. History of the Galatian Celts
I. Arrival and Operation as Mercenaries in Asia Minor
II. Pergamene and Roman Defeats
C. Roman Economic Exploitation
I. Taxes: Money, Time, Produce
II. New Settlements
III. Land Acquisition
IV. The Multiple Uses of Colonies
V. Corvée Labor
D. Life in the Roman Military
I. Galatian Troops
II. The Work of the Military in Galatia
III. Deployment Abroad
IV. Acculturation Once in the Military
E. Elites
I. Deiotarus and the Last Galatian Leaders
II. The Roles of Local Elites within the Roman System
III. Local Orators Vying for Imperial Favor
F. Summary
Chapter 4: Imperial Cult and the Cultic Contexts of Gal. 4:10
A. Introduction
B. Colonial Discourses at Work in Scholarship on the Imperial Cult
I. Methodological Issues within the Scholarly Literature
C. The Imperial Cult in Galatia
I. Neokoroi and Koina
II. Building the Imperial Temple at Ancyra
III. Spread of the Cult
D. The Imperial Cult and Local Elites
I. Conduits of Communication and Power
E. Imperial Cult and Roman Cultural Power
I. Expressing Rome's Power by Changing Calendar and Culture
F. The Emperor's Divinity at Home and Abroad
I. The Subordination of Roman and non-Roman Gods to the Emperor
II. The Political Side of Imperial Worship
G. The Imperial Cult, the Festival Calendar and The Military
I. Calendars of Imperial Worship as Modes of Acculturation .
H. Imperial Cult, Resistance and Conquest
I. Summary
Part III: Imperialism and Post-imperialism
Chapter 5: New Romans and New Apostles: Imperial Age Ideologues Constructing their Past
A. Reading the Present in the Past
B. British Imperial Discourses
I. European Powers and Their Roman Heritage
a) Inscribing the Roman Ancestry of the English
b) Britannia as Tabula Rasa
II. New Barbarians as Foils for New Romans
a) Imperial Ethnography as an Expression of Colonial Power
b) Race and Roman Heritage
III. Translatio Imperii
IV. Paternalism
C. Missionaries as New Apostles
I. Apostolic Heirs
II. Preaching to Heathens
III. A New Apostolic Obligation
D. Mission and Empire: Awkward Bedfellows?
E. Summary
Chapter 6: Galatians and Post-imperial Biblical Criticism
A. Introduction
I. Nineteenth-century Imperial Scholarship
II. Social Politics in Contemporary Anti-Imperial Scholarship
B. Post-imperialism and New Testament Studies
I. Empire Studies as a Form of Apologetics
II. A Good Empire is a Christian Empire
C. Paul as the Paradigmatic Christian Model
I. The Past: Paul as the Missionary Exemplar Spreading Christian Civilization
II. The Present: Paul as the Outsider-Leader Exemplar Spreading Christian Revolution
D. Binary Divisions of Humanity
I. The Past: The Binary of the Civilized Paul and the Barbaric Colonized Races
II. The Present: The Binary of the Rebel-Leader Paul and Barbaric Oppressors
E. Paternalism and Salvation
I. The Past: The Racial Caricature of Paul's Audiences as Incompetent and Ignorant
II. The Present: The Infantilization of Paul's Audiences and their Reduction to Props
F. Summary
Chapter 7: Conclusion: A Postcolonialist Reading of Gal. 4:10
A. Introduction
B. Re-reading Gal. 4:10
I. Paul's Frustrated Expectations
C. Galatian Absorption into the Roman Empire
I. Imperial Worship in Galatia
II. Structural Changes Brought by Roman Rule
D. Reading Galatian Mimicry and Hybridity as Resistance to Rome
I. Survival of Local Language
II. Survival of Local Cults
III. Violent Resistance in Asia Minor
IV. Resistance through Mimicry and Hybridity
V. Days, Months, Seasons, and Years
E. Reading "Error" as Resistance to Paul
I. Paul as a Colonizer
F. On Thinking from Monotheism
I. Paul's Misreading of his Audience
G. Concluding Thoughts on Empire and New Testament Studies
Bibliography
Index of References
Hebrew Bible
New Testament
Ancient Writers
Index of Places
Index of Persons
Subject Index

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