The Colonized Apostle

<p>How did Roman imperial culture shape the environment in which Paul carried out his apostolate? How do the multiple legacies of modern colonialism and contemporary empire shape illuminate or obscure our readings of Paul's letters? In <i>The Colonized Apostle</i> Christopher D. Stanley has gathered many of the foremost voices in postcolonial and empire-critical scholarship on Paul to provide a state-of-the-art guide to these questions.</p><p>This latest addition to the Paul in Critical Contexts series includes essays introducing postcolonial criticism and applying its insights both to Paul's context in the Roman world and to the reevaluation of contemporary interpretation. Contributors include Susan Abraham Jennifer Bird Neil Elliott L. Ann Jervis Melanie Johnson-DeBaufre Brigitte Kahl Jae Won Lee Tat-Siong Benny Liew Davina C. Lopez Joseph A. Marchal Stephen D. Moore Laura S. Nasrallah Jeremy A. Punt Robert P. Seesengood and Gordon M. Zerbe.</p>