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"Acts of the Apostles presents Roman officials and militarized police criminalizing, prosecuting, and incarcerating a movement of Jesus followers. This book brings Acts into conversation with ancient and modern understandings of crime by tending to laws and by exploring how different writers portray the criminalized"--
List of contents
I: 1. The analysis for rhetorical criminalization (ARC); 2. Analyzing structures in Ancient Roman and Jewish Criminalizing Discourses; 3. Analyzing stories and myths in Ancient Roman and Jewish criminalizing discourses; II: 4. 'I am a Human': criminal classification of humans and racializing assemblages in Acts; 5. 'Before the Court' and the confines of judicial structures in Acts and Callirhoe; 6. 'The Foundation of the Prison Shook' and the critical analysis of Apollo's, Dionysus', and Acts' myths; 7. 'Not Lawful for Romans' and the commitments of Roman elites in Acts.
About the author
Jeremy L. Williams earned his Ph.D. in New Testament and Early Christianity at Harvard University. He also graduated from Yale University Divinity School, where he received the Henry Hallam Tweedy Prize, the highest prize awarded to its graduates. He is a steering committee member of the Rhetoric in Early Christianity section of the Society of Biblical Literature.
Summary
Acts of the Apostles presents Roman officials and militarized police criminalizing, prosecuting, and incarcerating a movement of Jesus followers. This book brings Acts into conversation with ancient and modern understandings of crime by tending to laws and by exploring how different writers portray the criminalized.
