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Drew J. Strait is assistant professor of New Testament and Christian origins at Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary.

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This book examines the world of discursive resistance among subalterns in early Jewish and Greco-Roman antiquity, then sets Luke’s hidden criticism of imperial Rome in the Acts of the Apostles and Paul’s speech on the Areopagus in Acts 17 in that context.

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Chapter One-The Acts of the Apostles and Empire

Part I: Objects of Resistance

Chapter Two-Profiling Power: Divine Honors and Kingship Literature
Chapter Three-Hybrid Divine Honors in the Epigraphic Record

Part II: Strategies of Resistance

Chapter Four-Jewish Discursive Resistance
Chapter Five-The First Commandment and Hellenistic Monarchy
Chapter Six-The Second Commandment and Hellenistic Monarchy
Chapter Seven-The Wisdom of Solomon and Empire

Part III: Discursive Resistance and the Acts of the Apostles

Chapter Eight-The Politics of Luke: Acts and the Cosmology of Empire
Chapter Nine-The Areopagus Speech and Political Idolatry
Chapter Ten-The Areopagus Speech as Resistance Literature?