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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 | |