Aquatic Display: Navigating the Roman Imperial World in Acts 27
This article reads Acts 27-28.10 as an aquatic display' that offers Christ-believers a spectacle of navigating the stormy imperial world. It argues that Pliny's Panegyricus similarly employs aquatic displays to instruct in negotiating the emperor Trajan's power. It identifies four me...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge Univ. Press
[2016]
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New Testament studies
Year: 2016, Volume: 62, Issue: 1, Pages: 79-96 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Bible. Apostelgeschichte 27,1-28,10
/ Plinius Caecilius Secundus, Gaius 61-114, Panegyricus
/ Roman Empire
/ Power
/ Ocean
/ Figurative language
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| IxTheo Classification: | CD Christianity and Culture CG Christianity and Politics HC New Testament |
| Further subjects: | B
Pliny
B Rome B Acts 27 B Paul B imperial negotiation B Shipwreck |
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| Summary: | This article reads Acts 27-28.10 as an aquatic display' that offers Christ-believers a spectacle of navigating the stormy imperial world. It argues that Pliny's Panegyricus similarly employs aquatic displays to instruct in negotiating the emperor Trajan's power. It identifies four means in Acts 27 that assert Rome's power - judicial, military, economic, and the sea as a contested site where the sovereignties of God and Rome compete and cooperate - and which Christ-believers must negotiate by various means including submission, awareness of danger, courage, social interaction, agency, contribution to well-being, and discernment of and contestive allegiance to God's greater sovereignty. |
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| ISSN: | 1469-8145 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: New Testament studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S0028688515000284 |