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Images of empire / edited by Loveday Alexander. - 316 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. - Journal for the study of the Old Testament. Supplement series, 122 0309-0787 ; . - Journal for the study of the Old Testament. Supplement series ; 122. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Urbs Roma, plebs and Princeps / Miriam Griffin -- The economic critique of Rome in Revelation 18 / Richard Bauckham -- Images--or mirages--of empire? An archaeological approach to the problem / Keith Branigan -- Calgacus: clash of Roman and native / D.J. Mosley -- Friends, Romans, subjects: Agrippa II's speech in Josephus's Jewish war / Tessa Rajak -- The Kittim in the Qumran Pesharim / George J. Brooke -- Daniel in the lion's den / Philip R. Davies -- Surviving the web of power: religion and politics in the Acts of the Apostles, Josephus, and Chariton's Chaereas and Callirhoe / Douglas R. Edwards -- Luke--Acts: a mixed population seeks a home in the Roman Empire / Vernon K. Robbins -- Opponents of Rome: Jews and others / Martin Goodman -- Jerome's concepts of empire / Steven Fanning -- Let every soul be subject: the Fathers and the empire / Gillian Clark -- The family of Caesar and the family of God: the image of the emperor in the Heikhalot literature / Philip S. Alexander.

ISBN: 1850753121 9781850753124

LCCN: 92111209

Nat. Bib. No.: GB9148195 bnb

Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: 011396788 Uk 185-07531 uk

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Rome--History--Congresses.

Subjects--Index Terms: Roman Empire

LC Class. No.: DG12.5 / .I56 1991

Dewey Class. No.: 937