Transient Apostle: Paul, Travel, and the Rhetoric of Empire

by Timothy Luckritz Marquis

In a significant reevaluation of Paul's place in the early Christian story, Timothy Luckritz Marquis explores the theme of travel in the apostle's correspondence. He casts Paul's rhetorical strategies against the background of Augustus's age, when Rome's wealth depended on conquests abroad, the international commerce they facilitated, and the incursion of foreign customs and peoples they brought about. In so doing, Luckritz Marquis provides an explanation...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300187149
• ISBN13: 9780300187144
• Release Date: April 2013
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.5" x 9.3"