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| Illustrations | |
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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| The Nations in Nero's Nightmare | |
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| The Problem with the Nations | |
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| A Gender-Critical Approach to the Problem | |
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| A Non-Idealist Framework | |
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| Empire-Critical and Postcolonial Frameworks | |
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| Feminist and Queer Approaches | |
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| Summary and Outlook | |
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| Re-Imagining Paul and the Nations | |
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| Ideology, Imaginary, Imagination, Re-Imagination | |
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| Mapping Roman Imperial Ideology | |
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| Re-Mapping the Nations in Paul's Letters | |
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| The Fate of the Nations in Roman Imperial Representation | |
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| The Visual Representation of Roman Imperial Ideology | |
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| Visual Traditions and the Language of Roman Conquest | |
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| Personifications of Conquered Enemies in Hellenism | |
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| Representations of Captured Barbarians in the Roman Republic | |
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| Personifications of Peoples and Provinces in the Roman Republic | |
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| The Visual Representation of the Romans/Nations Hierarchy | |
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| A Judaea Capta Coin | |
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| The Cuirassed Statue of Augustus | |
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| Reliefs from the Sebasteion at Aphrodisias | |
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| The Portico of Nations at Aphrodisias | |
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| Cup 1 of the Boscoreale Treasure | |
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| What Has Judea to Do with Britannia? | |
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| Consistency in Visual Representation of the Romans/Nations Hierarchy | |
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| The Nations �United� in Deference to Rome | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| The Fate of the Nations and the Naturalization of Conquest | |
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| Predestination and the Historicity of Roman Conquest | |
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| Romulus (and Remus) as Founder(s) of Rome | |
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| The Conception of Romulus and Remus | |
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| Romulus Kills Remus and Builds �Creation� | |
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| Rape of the Sabine Women | |
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| Aeneas as Founder of the Roman Empire | |
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| Jupiter's Prediction in Aeneid, Book 1 | |
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| Anchises's Underworld Prediction in Aeneid, Book 6 | |
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| Aeneas's Prophetic Shield in Aeneid, Book 8 | |
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| The Justification and Naturalization of Roman Conquest | |
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| Augustus as the Re-founder of Rome | |
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| The Nations in the Res Gestae | |
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| Res Gestae as Monumental Inscription Displaying the Nations | |
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| Res Gestae among Inscriptions of the Nations | |
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| Judeans and Other Barbarians | |
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| Romans and Barbarians/Nations | |
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| Celts/Gauls/Galatians as Exemplary Non-Roman Nations | |
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| Roman Military Violence as Sexual Conquest over the Nations | |
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| Jews among the Conquered Nations | |
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| Summary | |
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| The Ritualization and Eternalization of Roman Conquest | |
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| Description of the Roman Triumph | |
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| Triumph as a Display of the Nations | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Re-Imagining Paul as Apostle to the Conquered | |
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| �Conversion,� �Call,� and �Consciousness� (Gal 1:13-17) | |
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| Traditional Perspective: Paul Converts from Judaism to Christianity | |
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| New Perspective: Paul Is Called, Not Converted | |
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| Empire-Critical Perspective: Paul Is Called, but to Politics | |
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| Gender-Critical Re-Imagination: Paul Is Called to Consciousness | |
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| The Politics of the New Creation | |
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| Paul Adopts the Subordinate Position among the Other Defeated Nations | |
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| The Defeated Paul among the Nations: �Become Like Me� (Gal 4:12) | |
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| The Defeated Paul as a Suffering Mother (Gal 4:19) | |
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| Bear One Another's Burdens: A Movement of Inter-national Solidarity | |
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| The Politics of the New Creation | |
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| The Uniform of International Solidarity (Gal 3:26-29) | |
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| Performing International Solidarity (Gal 5:9-6:2) | |
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| Summary | |
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| The Fate of the Nations in Pauline Imagination (Gal 4:21-5:1) | |
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| Abraham as the Father of the Nations | |
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| Paul as a Mother among the Defeated Nations | |
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| Two Covenants: With Caesar and with God | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Dislocating Paul's Universalism | |
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| Representing Imperial Civilization as a �Yoke of Slavery� | |
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| (Dis)Locating Universalism | |
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| Toward Visually Literate New Testament Studies | |
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| Visualizing Significant Others | |
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| Abbreviations | |
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| Notes | |
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| Index | |