| | | Document Type | : | Latin Dissertation | | Language of Document | : | English | | Record Number | : | 53206 | | Doc. No | : | TL23160 | | Call number | : | 3346818 | | Main Entry | : | Ruben Munoz-Larrondo | | Title & Author | : | Living in two worlds---a postcolonial reading of Acts of the ApostlesRuben Munoz-Larrondo | | College | : | Vanderbilt University | | Date | : | 2008 | | Degree | : | Ph.D. | | student score | : | 2008 | | Page No | : | 408 | | Abstract | : | This dissertation approaches the Acts of the Apostles from the optic of postcolonial criticism. I argue that the Lukan community struggles to legitimate itself, in hybrid fashion, before two structures of powers or hegemonies: the Roman Empire and its system of imperial worship and the defining institutions of Judaism. I take Acts 12 as point of departure, with its twofold motif of self-exaltation and self-attribution of divine prerogatives. Regarding Rome, I read Acts 12 as a hidden transcript within the system of imperial worship, pointing to the fate of any power that would usurp divine prerogatives and claim allegiance to any Lord other than God. I also analyze the representation by mimicry of Roman worship in Acts, based on supremacy and hegemony and exercised by way of imperial decrees, the erection of temples, neokoroi , religious customs, and so forth. I further analyze the representation of Roman officers, whom, I argue, Luke portrays as full of fear, liars, seekers of bribes, and, more importantly, in need of salvation and peace. Regarding Judaism, I read the Lukan community in Acts as a Jewish Christian group within the development of a plurality of Judaisms and within the Jesus movement. They see themselves, I argue, as the legitimate heirs of the correct interpretation of the Jewish Scriptures. Further, they do not deny their ethnicity, but do proclaim the eschatological/apocalyptic end of the institutions that define Judaism (the kingship and the Sanhedrin as a temple establishment) as well as the restoration of the Kingdom of God, rather than of Israel, with a full acceptance and inclusion of the Gentiles. | | Subject | : | Philosophy, religion and theology; Postcolonialism; Biblical studies; Acts of the Apostles; Theology; 0321:Biblical studies; 0469:Theology | | Added Entry | : | F. F. Segovia | | Added Entry | : | Vanderbilt University |
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