John and Empire
Author: Warren Carter
Publisher: T&T Clark
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 448
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCarter examines the influence of the Roman Empire on the writing of John's Gospel.
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God and Empire
Author: John Dominic Crossan
Publisher: Harper Collins
Published: 2007-03-13
Total Pages: 276
ISBN-13: 0060843233
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAt the heart of the Bible is a moral and ethical call to fight unjust superpowers, whether they are Babylon, Rome, or even America. From the divine punishment and promise found in Genesis through the revolutionary messages of Jesus and Paul, John Dominic Crossan reveals what the Bible has to say about land and economy, violence and retribution, justice and peace, and, ultimately, redemption. In contrast to the oppressive Roman military occupation of the first century, he examines the meaning of the non-violent Kingdom of God prophesized by Jesus and the equality advocated by Paul to the early Christian churches. Crossan contrasts these messages of peace with the misinterpreted apocalyptic vision from the Book of Revelation, which has been misrepresented by modern right-wing theologians and televangelists to justify U.S. military actions in the Middle East. In God and Empire Crossan surveys the Bible from Genesis to Apocalypse, or the Book of Revelation, and discovers a hopeful message that cannot be ignored in these turbulent times. The first-century Pax Romana, Crossan points out, was in fact a "peace" won through violent military action. Jesus preached a different kind of peace—a peace that surpasses all understanding—and a kingdom not of Caesar but of God. The Romans executed Jesus because he preached this Kingdom of God, a kingdom based on peace and justice, over the empire of Rome, which ruled by violence and force. For Jesus and Paul, Crossan explains, peace cannot be won the Roman way, through military victory, but only through justice and fair and equal treatment of all people.
Justinian and the Later Roman Empire
Author: John W. Barker
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
Published: 1966
Total Pages: 348
ISBN-13: 9780299039448
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe eastern half of the Roman Empire, economically the stronger, did not "fall" but continued almost intact, safe in the new capital of Constantinople. This empire is the subject of John Barker Jr.'s book and the central focus of his examination of questions of continuity and change.
Unfinished Empire
Author: John Darwin
Publisher: Penguin UK
Published: 2012-09-06
Total Pages: 574
ISBN-13: 1846146712
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA both controversial and comprehensive historical analysis of how the British Empire worked, from Wolfson Prize-winning author and historian John Darwin The British Empire shaped the world in countless ways: repopulating continents, carving out nations, imposing its own language, technology and values. For perhaps two centuries its expansion and final collapse were the single largest determinant of historical events, and it remains surrounded by myth, misconception and controversy today. John Darwin's provocative and richly enjoyable book shows how diverse, contradictory and in many ways chaotic the British Empire really was, controlled by interests that were often at loggerheads, and as much driven on by others' weaknesses as by its own strength.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. With a Portrait and Maps
Author: Edward Gibbon
Publisher:
Published: 1823
Total Pages: 454
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Author: Edward Gibbon
Publisher:
Published: 1855
Total Pages: 628
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKEmpire in the New Testament
Author: Stanley E. Porter
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Published: 2011-01-01
Total Pages: 321
ISBN-13: 1608995992
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHow does a Christian render unto Caesar what is Caesar's, and unto God what is God's? This book is the result of the Bingham Colloquium of 2007 that brought scholars from across North America to examine the New Testament's response to the empires of God and Caesar. Two chapters lay the foundation for that response in the Old Testament's concept of empire, and six others address the response to the notion of empire, both human and divine, in the various authors of the New Testament. A final chapter investigates how the church fathers regarded the matter. The essays display various methods and positions; together, however, they offer a representative sample of the current state of study of the notion of empire in the New Testament.
Christian Origins and the Establishment of the Early Jesus Movement
Author: Stanley E. Porter
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2018-08-07
Total Pages: 597
ISBN-13: 9004372741
DOWNLOAD EBOOKChristian Origins and the Establishment of the Early Jesus Movement explores the events, people, and writings surrounding the founding of the early Jesus movement in the mid to late first century. The essays are divided into four parts, focused upon the movement’s formation, the production of its early Gospels, description of the Jesus movement itself, and the Jewish mission and its literature. This collection of essays includes chapters by a global cast of scholars from a variety of methodological and critical viewpoints, and continues the important Early Christianity in its Hellenistic Context series.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Author: Edward Gibbon
Publisher:
Published: 1845
Total Pages: 840
ISBN-13:
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Author: David Dunwoody
Publisher: Permuted Press
Published: 2011-04-08
Total Pages: 309
ISBN-13: 193486174X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe dead refuse to stay dead. The Reaper is here to put them down. As winter sets in and America’s survivors struggle to rebuild a semblance of civilization, terrifying new enemies are gathering—both in the lawless badlands and within the walls of the safe zone. Most fearsome of all is the “King of the Dead.” His zombified troupe of sideshow curiosities is but a fraction of his growing pack. The Reaper’s quest to safeguard the humans he has befriended places him on the trail of these feral undead. But he is sorely unprepared for the return of the zombie transformed by his own flesh, the Omega—a fiend driven by something more sinister than any virus. Meanwhile, Death’s questions about his origin haunt him, and he is close to the answers... but the worst of both the living and the dead are rising in his path, and he’ll have to cut them all down to reach the cosmic endgame.
