Apocalypse Against Empire

by Portier-Young, Anathea E.

• ISBN13: 9780802865984
• ISBN10: 0802865984
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-01-06
• Publisher: Eerdmans Pub Co

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. xii
Preface	p. xiv
Abbreviations	p. xviii
Introduction	p. xxi
Theorizing Resistance
Theorizing Resistance	p. 3
Theology or Theologies of Resistance?	p. 3
Conceptualizing Resistance	p. 5
Forms of Resistance	p. 5
In Search of a Definition	p. 6
Resistance Limits Power	p. 6
Intentions and Actions	p. 8
Contesting Hegemony and Domination	p. 9
Summary	p. 10
Hegemony and Domination: The Conditions and Objects of Resistance	p. 11
Hegemony	p. 11
Domination and dominio	p. 23
Resistance to the Hellenistic Empires: Key Studies	p. 27
James C. Scott, the Hidden Transcript, and Apocalyptic Pseudonymity	p. 31
Practice versus Belief?	p. 35
Anonymity or Pseudonymity	p. 37
Scott on Anonymity	p. 37
Pseudonymity and Contingency	p. 41
Conclusion	p. 44
Seleucid Domination in Judea
Hellenistic Rule in Judea: Setting the Stage for Resistance	p. 49
The Beginnings of Hellenistic Rule	p. 49
Alexander, the Successors, and the Ideology of Conquest	p. 49
Caught in the Battle for Domination	p. 54
The Transition to Seleucid Rule	p. 55
The Letter to Ptolemy	p. 55
The Programma	p. 57
Peaceful Coexistence?	p. 62
Stressors and Divisions	p. 63
Ancestral Laws, Scripture, and Invented Tradition	p. 73
Interaction and Identity in Seleucid Judea: 188-173 BCE	p. 78
The Broader Context: The Seleucid Empire under Roman Hegemony	p. 78
Domination and Interaction in Seleucid Judea	p. 79
The Heliodorus Stele	p. 80
Heliodorus's Incursion into the Jerusalem Temple: 2 Maccabees 3:1-4:6	p. 86
Reading the Sources Together	p. 89
Judaism versus Hellenism?	p. 91
Jason's Hellenizing Reforms	p. 93
Cultural Encounter in the Hellenistic Empires	p. 103
Distinctive Identities	p. 108
Asserting a Threatened Identity	p. 112
Re-creating the Empire: The Sixth Syrian War, Jason's Revolt, and the Reconquest of Jerusalem	p. 115
Preparing for War	p. 117
The Akra	p. 122
Sacrilege and Riot	p. 124
Civil War and Revolt	p. 126
Antiochus IV, Rome, and the Plan of God	p. 130
The Evidence of Polybius	p. 130
The Evidence of Daniel	p. 134
Revolt and the Re-creation of Empire	p. 136
Seleucid State Terror	p. 140
The Logic of State Terror	p. 141
Massacre	p. 143
Murder in the Home	p. 145
Abduction	p. 147
Plundering the Temple	p. 150
Jerusalem's Shame	p. 155
Apollonius's Mission	p. 158
Parade Turned Massacre	p. 162
Exposing the Spectacle, Answering Terror	p. 168
Into the Wilderness	p. 168
The Monstrosity of Imperial Rule	p. 170
Divine Justice	p. 172
Speaking the Unspeakable	p. 172
Time, Memory, and Language	p. 173
Conclusion	p. 174
The Edict of Antiochus: Persecution and the Unmaking of the Judean World	p. 176
Daniel	p. 178
1 and 2 Maccabees	p. 185
Loss of Autonomia	p. 186
Aims of the Edict and Persecution	p. 191
Prohibitions	p. 193
Compulsory Practices	p. 195
Resistance	p. 210
Conclusion	p. 215
Apocalyptic Theologies of Resistance
Introduction to Part Three	p. 217
Daniel	p. 223
The People Who Know Their God Will Stand Strong and Act: Strength, Knowledge, and Faithfulness	p. 235
Prayer and Penitence	p. 243
To Teach, to Fall, and to Make Righteous	p. 254
Daniel 1, 3, and 6: Stories of Faithfulness	p. 258
Waiting for the End	p. 262
Reading and Writing Scripture: Creative Reinterpretation and New Revelation	p. 265
Studying the Scrolls: Seventy Weeks of Years	p. 267
Suffering Servants	p. 272
Commissioning the Reader	p. 276
Conclusion	p. 277
Enochic Authority	p. 280
Distinctive Features of the Early Enochic Literature	p. 285
Astronomical Concerns	p. 286
Alternative Cosmology	p. 287
Alternative Epistemology	p. 291
Elevated Role of Enoch	p. 292
Enochic Authority in the Hellenistic Imperial Context	p. 294
Who Were They?	p. 307
Languages	p. 310
The Apocalypse of Weeks: Witness and Transformation	p. 313
The Righteous	p. 324
The Seventh Week: Witness, Uproot, Enact Justice	p. 328
A Sword to Execute Righteous Judgment	p. 337
Beyond Resistance: Righteous Economy, Temple, and the Kingdom of the Great One	p. 340
Conclusion	p. 345
The Book of Dreams: See and Cry Out	p. 346
Interpreting the Present through the Past	p. 352
The First Dream Vision: Supplication	p. 353
The Second Dream Vision: The Animal Apocalypse	p. 363
They Began to Open Their Eyes and to See	p. 363
... And to Cry Out to the Sheep	p. 368
Horns Came Out on Those Lambs	p. 372
They Lamented and Cried Out	p. 374
War Traditions	p. 376
Conclusion	p. 379
Conclusion	p. 382
Epilogue	p. 390
Bibliography	p. 401
Index of Modern Authors	p. 439
Index of Subjects	p. 442
Index of Ancient Sources	p. 450
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