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REPRESENTATIVES OF ROMAN RULE - JOSHUA YODER GE...

Luke-Acts contains a wealth of material that is relevant to politics  and the relationship
between Jesus and his followers and the Roman Empire becomes an issue at a number of points.
The author's fundamental attitude toward Rome is hard to discern  however. The complexity of
Luke's task as both a creative writer and a mediator of received tradition  and perhaps as well
the author's own ambivalence  have left conflicting evidence in the narrative. Scholarly
treatments of the issue have tended to survey in a relatively short scope a great amount of
material with different degrees of relevance to the question and representing different
proportions of authorial contribution and traditional material. This book attempts to make a
contribution to the discussion by narrowing the focus to Luke's depiction of the Roman
provincial governors in his narrative  interpreted in terms of his Greco-Roman literary
context. Luke's portraits of Roman governors can be seen to invoke expectations and concerns
that were common in the literary context. By these standards Luke's portrait of these Roman
authority figures is relatively critical  and demonstrates his preoccupation with Rome's
judgment of the Christians more than a desire to commend Roman rule.

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