Matthew, Paul, and the Anthropology of Law (eBook)

David A. Kaden (Autor)

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2016 | 1. Auflage
252 Seiten
Mohr Siebeck (Verlag)
978-3-16-154077-6 (ISBN)

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Drawing from Michel Foucault's understanding of power, David A. Kaden explores how relations of power are instrumental in forming law as an object of discourse in the Gospel of Matthew and in the Letters of Paul. This is a comparative project in that the author examines the role that power relations play in generating discussions of law in the first century context, and in several ethnographies from the field of the anthropology of law from Indonesia, Mexico, the Philippines, and colonial-era Hawaii. Discussions of law proliferate in situations where the relations of power within social groups come into contact with social forces outside the group. David A. Kaden's interdisciplinary approach reframes how law is studied in Christian Origins scholarship, especially Pauline and Matthean scholarship, by focusing on what makes discourses on law possible. For this he relies heavily on cross-cultural, ethnographic materials from legal anthropology.

Born 1977; PhD from the Department for the Study of Religion at the University of Toronto; taught at the University of Toronto and St. Olaf College, and currently Senior Minister at First Congregational Church, United Church of Christ in Ithaca, NY.

Inhalt

Cover 1
Preface 8
Table of Contents 10
List of Abbreviations 12
1. Foucault, Smith, and Comparison 16
1.1 Problem, Method, and Theory 16
1.1.1 Overview 16
1.1.2 Method 24
1.1.2a 24
1.1.2b 26
1.1.2c 32
1.1.3 Theory 34
1.1.3a 35
1.1.3b 38
1.1.4 Conclusion 42
2. Ethnographic Materials, Power Relations, and the Anthropology of Law 43
2.1 Anthropology of Law in Indonesia, Mexico, the Philippines, and Colonial Hawaii 43
2.1.1 Overview 43
2.1.2 Dou Donggo (Indonesia) 48
2.1.3 Zapotec Peoples (Mexico) 58
2.1.4 Ilongot Peoples (Philippines) 64
2.1.5 Colonizing Hawaii 70
2.1.6 Conclusion 79
3. Literature Review of Matthean and Pauline Scholarship on the Topic of Law 81
3.1 The Problem of Situating Matthew and Paul vis-à-vis Judaism 81
3.1.1 Overview 81
3.1.2 Matthew 86
3.1.3 Paul 103
4. Power and Judean Ancestral Customs in the Roman World 123
4.1 Philo, Josephus, and Roman Administration 123
4.1.1 Overview 123
4.1.2 Philo of Alexandria and Judean Ancestral Customs 126
4.1.3 Framing Judean Rights in the Roman World 133
4.1.4 Flavius Josephus and Judean Ancestral Customs 137
4.1.4a 138
4.1.4b 140
4.1.4c 148
4.1.4d 153
4.1.5 Conclusion 157
4.1.6 Summary 158
5. Relations of Power in Matthew and Paul 160
5.1 Empire, Legal Fiction, and Geography 160
5.1.1 Overview 160
5.1.2 Imperial Context 163
5.1.2a 164
5.1.2b 173
5.1.2c 174
5.1.3 Summary 184
5.1.4 Law, Power, and Legal Fiction 185
5.1.4a 186
5.1.4b 188
5.1.4c 190
5.1.4d 196
5.1.5 Conclusion 209
Bibliography 212
Index of Ancient Sources 234
Old Testament 234
New Testament 234
Noncanonical New Testament and Patristic Sources 241
Apocrypha 242
Old Testament Pseudepigrapha 242
Dead Sea Scrolls 242
Josephus 242
Philo 244
Classical Sources 245
Index of Authors 248
Index of Subjects 252

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.11.2016
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Christentum
• ISBN-10: 3-16-154077-8 / 3161540778
• ISBN-13: 978-3-16-154077-6 / 9783161540776