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Criminalization in Acts of the Apostles

by Jeremy L. Williams
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9781009366373
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press
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  • Pages: 248
  • Original Price: USD 116.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 536 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Biblical Studies / New Testament / General

In this study, Jeremy L. Williams interrogates the Book of Acts in an effort to understand how early Christian texts provide glimpses of the legal processes by which Roman officials and militarized police criminalized, prosecuted, and incarcerated people in the first and second centuries CE. Williams investigates how individuals and groups have been, and still are, prosecuted for specious reasons - because of stories and myths written against them, perceptions of alterity that render them subhuman or nonhuman, the collision of officials, and financial incentives that foster injustices, among them. Through analysis of criminalization in Acts, he demonstrates how Critical Race Theory, Black studies, and feminist rhetorical scholarship enables a reconstruction of ancient understandings of crime, judicial institutions, militarized police, punishment, and socio-political processes that criminalize. Williams' study highlights how the criminalization of Jesus followers as depicted in Acts enables connections with contemporary movements. It also presents the ancient text as a critique against the shortcomings of some contemporary understandings of justice and human rights.

Williams, Jeremy L.: - 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.

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