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Luke and Empire

Alexander, Loveday. ‘Luke’s Political Vision’. Interpretation 66, no. 3 (2012) 283–93.

Barreto, Eric D. ‘A Gospel on the Move: Practice, Proclamation, and Place in Luke-Acts’. Interpretation 72, no. 2 (2018) 175–87.

Bonz, Marianne Palmer. The Past as Legacy. Minneapolis: Fortress, 2000.

Carter, Warren. Jesus and the Empire of God: Reading the Gospels in the Roman Empire. Eugene, Oregon: Cascade, 2021.

Cassidy, Richard J. Jesus, Politics, and Society: A Study of Luke’s Gospel. Eugene, Oregon: Wipf and Stock, 2015.

Cassidy, Richard J. Christians and Roman Rule in the New Testament: New Perspectives. New York: Crossroad, 2001.

Crossan, John Dominic. God and Empire: Jesus Against Rome, Then and Now. New York: Harper Collins, 2007.

Esler, Philip F. Community and Gospel in Luke-Acts: The Social and Political Motivations of Lucan Theology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987.

Gilbert, Gary. ‘Roman Propaganda and Christian Identity in the Worldview of Luke-Acts’. In Contextualizing Acts: Lukan Narrative and Greco-Roman Discourse, edited by Todd Penner and Caroline Vander Stichele, 233–56. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2003.

Hylen, Susan E. Women in the New Testament World. Essentials of Biblical Studies. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019.

Kahl, Brigitte. ‘Reading Luke Against Luke: Non-Uniformity of Text, Hermeneutics of Conspiracy and the “Scriptural Principle” in Luke 1’. In A Feminist Companion to Luke, edited by Amy-Jill Levine, 70–88. London: Sheffield Academic, 2002.

Myers, Alicia D. An Introduction to the Gospels and Acts. Essentials of Biblical Studies. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022.

Reid, Barbara E. ‘”Do You See This Woman?” A Liberative Look at Luke 7:36–50 and Strategies for Reading Other Lukan Stories against the Grain’. In A Feminist Companion to Luke, edited by Amy-Jill Levine and Marianne Blickenstaff, 106–20. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic, 2002.

Robbins, Vernon K. ‘Luke-Acts: A Mixed Population Seeks a Home in the Roman Empire’. In Images of Empire, edited by Loveday Alexander, 202–21. Journal for the Study of the Old Testament Supplement Series 122. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic, 1991.

———. ‘The Social Location of the Implied Author of Luke-Acts’. In The Social World of Luke-Acts: Models for Interpretation, edited by Jerome H. Neyrey, 305–32. Peabody, Mass.: Hendrickson, 1991.

Walton, Steve. ‘The State They Were In: Luke’s View of the Roman Empire’. In Reading Acts in the Discourses of Masculinity and Politics, edited by Eric D. Barreto, Matthew L. Skinner, and Steve Walton, 75–106. The Library of New Testament Studies. London: T&T Clark, 2017.

Walaskay, Paul W. And So We Came to Rome: The Political Perspective of St Luke. Vol. 49. Society for New Testament Studies Monograph Series. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010.

Yamazaki-Ransom, Kazuhiko. The Roman Empire in Luke’s Narrative. London: T. & T. Clark, 2010.

Acts and empire

Alexander, Loveday. ‘Mapping Early Christianity: Acts and the Shape of Early Church History’. Interpretation 57, no. 2 (2003) 163–73.

Alexander, Loveday. ‘Luke’s Political Vision’. Interpretation 66, no. 3 (2012) 283–93.

Barclay, John M. G. ‘Why the Roman Empire Was Insignificant to Paul’. In Pauline Churches and Diaspora Jews, edited by John M. G. Barclay. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2011.

Barreto, Eric D. ‘A Gospel on the Move: Practice, Proclamation, and Place in Luke-Acts’. Interpretation 72, no. 2 (2018) 175–87.

Billings, Drew W. Acts of the Apostles and the Rhetoric of Roman Imperialism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017.

Bonz, Marianne Palmer. The Past as Legacy. Minneapolis: Fortress, 2000.

Carter, Warren. ‘Aquatic Display: Navigating the Roman Imperial World in Acts 27’. New Testament Studies 62 (2016) 79–96.

Cassidy, Richard J. Society and Politics in the Acts of the Apostles. Eugene, Oregon: Wipf and Stock, 2015.

Cassidy, Richard J. Christians and Roman Rule in the New Testament: New Perspectives. New York: Crossroad, 2001.

Crossan, John Dominic. God and Empire: Jesus Against Rome, Then and Now. New York: Harper Collins, 2007.

Dupertuis, Ruben R., and Todd Penner. Engaging Early Christian History: Reading Acts in the Second Century. London: Routledge, 2013.

Edwards, Douglas R. ‘Surviving the Web of Roman Power: Religion and Politics in the Acts of the Apostles, Josephus, and Chariton’s Chaereas and Callirhoe’. In Images of Empire, edited by Loveday Alexander, 179–201. Journal for the Study of the Old Testament Supplement Series 122. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic, 1991.

Esler, Philip F. Community and Gospel in Luke-Acts: The Social and Political Motivations of Lucan Theology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987.

Gilbert, Gary. ‘Roman Propaganda and Christian Identity in the Worldview of Luke-Acts’. In Contextualizing Acts: Lukan Narrative and Greco-Roman Discourse, edited by Todd Penner and Caroline Vander Stichele, 233–56. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2003.

Heilig, Christoph. The Apostle and the Empire. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 2022.

Hylen, Susan E. Women in the New Testament World. Essentials of Biblical Studies. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019.

Jervell, Jacob. The Theology of the Acts of the Apostles. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008.

Kahl, Brigitte. ‘Acts of the Apostles: Pro(to)-Imperial Script and Hidden Transcript’. In In the Shadow of Empire: Reclaiming the Bible as a History of Faithful Resistance, edited by Richard A. Horsley, 137–56. Louisville and London: Westminster John Knox, 2008.

Lents, Hannah. ‘Third Space in Paul’s Areopagus Speech’. In Acts of the Apostles, edited by Linda M. Maloney and Ivoni Richter Reimer, 45:247–53. Wisdom Commentary. Collegeville, Minnesota: Liturgical, 2022.

Matthews, Shelly. The Acts of the Apostles: Taming the Tongues of Fire. T&T Clark Study Guide to the New Testament. London: T&T Clark, 2017.

Myers, Alicia D. An Introduction to the Gospels and Acts. Essentials of Biblical Studies. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022.

Oakes, Peter. Rome in the Bible and the Early Church. Carlisle: Paternoster, 2002.

Oakes, Peter. Empire, Economics, and the New Testament. Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Eerdmans, 2020.

Omerzu, Heike. ‘The Roman Trial Against Paul According to Acts 21–28’. In The Last Years of Paul: Essays from the Tarragona Conference, June 2013, edited by A. Puig i Tàrrech, J. M. G. Barclay, and J. Frey, 187–200. Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen Zum Neuen Testament. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2015.

Parsons, Mikeal C. ‘Empowering, Empire-Ing or Engaging? Acts in the Discourse of Politics: A Response’. In Reading Acts in the Discourses of Masculinity and Politics, edited by Eric D. Barreto, Matthew L. Skinner, and Steve Walton, 141–47. The Library of New Testament Studies. London: T&T Clark, 2017.

Praeder, Susan Marie. ‘Acts 27:1–28:16: Sea Voyages in Ancient Literature and the Theology of Luke-Acts’. The Catholic Biblical Quarterly 46, no. 4 (1984) 683–706.

Rapske, Brian. Paul in Roman Custody. Vol. 3. The Book of Acts in Its First Century Setting. Carlisle: Paternoster, 1994.

Robbins, Vernon K. ‘Luke-Acts: A Mixed Population Seeks a Home in the Roman Empire’. In Images of Empire, edited by Loveday Alexander, 202–21. Journal for the Study of the Old Testament Supplement Series 122. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic, 1991.

———. ‘The Social Location of the Implied Author of Luke-Acts’. In The Social World of Luke-Acts: Models for Interpretation, edited by Jerome H. Neyrey, 305–32. Peabody, Mass.: Hendrickson, 1991.

Rowe, C. Kavin. World Upside Down: Reading Acts in the Graeco-Roman Age. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009.

Schellenberg, Ryan S. ‘Danger in the Wilderness, Danger at Sea: Paul and the Perils of Travel’. In Travel and Religion in Antiquity, edited by P. Harland, 141–61. Waterloo, Ontario: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2011.

Schellenberg, Ryan S. Abject Joy: Paul, Prison, and the Art of Making Do. New York: Oxford University Press, USA, 2021.

Schellenberg, Ryan S. ‘Beatings and Imprisonments’. In T&T Clark Handbook to the Historical Paul, edited by Ryan S. Schellenberg and Heidi Wendt, 123–39. London: T&T Clark, 2022.

Skinner, Matthew L. ‘Who Speaks For (Or Against) Rome? Acts In Relation To Empire’. In Reading Acts in the Discourses of Masculinity and Politics, edited by Eric D. Barreto, Matthew L. Skinner, and Steve Walton, 107–25. The Library of New Testament Studies. London: T&T Clark, 2017.

Speidel, Michael P. ‘The Roman Army in Judaea under the Procurators: The Italian and the Augustan Cohort in the Acts of the Apostles’. In Essential Essays for the Study of the Military in First-Century Palestine, edited by Christopher B. Zeichmann. Eugene, Oregon: Pickwick Publications, 2019.

Walton, Steve. ‘The State They Were In: Luke’s View of the Roman Empire’. In Reading Acts in the Discourses of Masculinity and Politics, edited by Eric D. Barreto, Matthew L. Skinner, and Steve Walton, 75–106. The Library of New Testament Studies. London: T&T Clark, 2017.

Wright, N. T. ‘Paul’s Gospel and Caesar’s Empire’. 2001..