The Gospels and the Roman Empire

Jillian D. Nelson (Anthology Editor) , Adam Winn (Anthology Editor)

The Gospels and the Roman Empire

Jillian D. Nelson (Anthology Editor) , Adam Winn (Anthology Editor)

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This book explores how the New Testament, specifically the four canonical gospels, negotiate the Roman imperial world.

Each chapter contributes to a larger goal of demonstrating how the Roman imperial world functions as a critical context that can yield new and exciting perspectives on the gospel narratives. Within this volume, scholars from a variety of contexts come together to examine a particular aspect of negotiation with the Roman Empire, including Genre and Composition, Economic Justice and Social Ethics, Ritual Purity and Ethnicity, Roman Figures, Hegemonic Narratives of Empire, and Gender Construction. The contributors provide an interdisciplinary perspective, incorporating literary studies, gender criticism, Jewish studies, and disability studies.

Introduction, Jillian D. Nelson
Chapter One: The Narratives of Roman Imperial Power, Warren Carter
Chapter Two: New Insights into the Genre of the Canonical Gospels and Their Composition, Elizabeth J. B. Corsar
Chapter Three: “Not Like Them”: (Re) Considering the Gospel of Mark as Subversive-Political Biography, Justin Marc Smith
Chapter Four: Building Disciples or Discipling Building?: Construction Scenes in Luke's Gospel, Anna M. V. Bowden
Chapter Five: The Money Could Have Been Given to the Poor: The Military and the Monetization of the Economy in the Gospel of Mark, Christopher B. Zeichmann
Chapter Six: Gospels, Ritual, Purity, and Ethnicity and the Roman World, R. Alan Streett
Chapter Seven: A Palm Parade, Hidden Transcripts, and the Politics of Peace in the Fourth Gospel, Arthur M. Wright, Jr.
Chapter Eight: Assessing Bodies in Matthew's Gospel: How Matthew “Fleshes Out” Claims for Jesus's Status and Authority, Annelies Gisela Moeser
Chapter Nine: There is neither Jew nor Greek? Postcolonial Trauma and the Destruction of the Second Temple, Joseph McDonald
Chapter Ten: The Herodians and Roman Imperial Engagement in the Synoptic Gospels, Adam Winn

Product details

Published	19 Feb 2026
Format	Ebook (Epub & Mobi)
Edition	1st
Extent	256
ISBN	9781978761148
Imprint	T&T Clark
Illustrations	2 bw illus
Publisher	Bloomsbury Publishing

Anthology Editor

Jillian D. Nelson

Jillian D. Nelson is adjunct instructor for Texas…

Anthology Editor

Adam Winn

Adam Winn is the S. Louis and Ann W. Armstrong Pro…

These essays show that questions of empire and imperialism remain vital in Gospel studies, and offer new vistas on more specific questions today. Not to be missed!

Neil Elliott, author of Liberating Paul: The Justice of God and the Politics of the Apostle (1994), The Arrogance of Nations: Reading Romans in the Shadow of Empire (2008), and Paul the Jew under Roman Rule (2024), among other works
This essay collection on the connections between the New Testament and the Roman Empire advances the field of inquiry through providing readers with multiple accessible entry points, theoretical frameworks, historical comparisons, and exegetical propositions. Those interested in interdisciplinary explorations of canonical gospel narratives in their complex historical and cultural contexts will find much with which to think in this volume. A most welcome resource that charts future interpretive directions.

Davina C. Lopez, Loy H. Witherspoon Professor of Christian Origins, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
The shadow of the Roman Empire looms large in the composition of the New Testament Gospels. In these collected essays, these imperial contexts and subtexts are named in clarifying ways, analyzed in refreshing approaches, and interpreted anew, arguing together that critical attention to the many yet subtle ways the Empire inflected the Gospels remains a critical site of study for New Testament scholars today.

Eric D. Barreto, Princeton Theological Seminary