In what sense does Matthew's Gospel reflect the colonial situation in which the community found itself after the fall of Jerusalem and the subsequent humiliatio

"In Matthew and Empire, Warren Carter argues that Matthew's Gospel protests Roman imperialism by asserting that God's purposes and will are performed not by the

Carter examines the influence of the Roman Empire on the writing of John's Gospel.

Using an empire-critical approach to read the Gospel of Matthew, I argue that the gospel writer constructs and negotiates Roman military power in a variety of w

For ten years, the well-received first edition of this introduction offered readers a way to look at scriptural texts that combines historical, narrative, and c