The Arrogance of Nations, paperback edition : Reading Romans in the Shadow of Empire (Paul in Critical Contexts)

Elliott offers a fresh and surprising reinterpretation of Pauls letter to the Romans in the context of Roman imperial ideology, bringing to the text the latest insights from classical studies, rhetorical criticism, postcolonial criticism, and peoples history. By setting the letter alongside Roman texts (Cicero, Virgil, the Res Gestae of Augustus, S