 | Render to Caesar: Jesus, the Early Church, and the Roman Superpower by Christopher Bryan
Buy new: $28.39 / Used from: $8.21 Extremist/narrow rebuttal to Horsley interpreted as "Jesus was a political activist/revolutionary" (Horsley actually posits that Jesus/Paul advocated an alternative sociopolitical configuration)
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 | Jesus and Empire: The Kingdom of God and the New World Disorder by Richard A. Horsley
Buy new: $12.53 / Used from: $7.00 Horsley (monograph). Posits that Jesus/Paul advocated an alternative sociopolitical configuration.
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 | Message and the Kingdom by Richard A. Horsley
Buy new: $21.00 / Used from: $7.59 Horsley. Posits that Jesus/Paul advocated an alternative sociopolitical configuration, alternative to imperial ideology
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 | Christians and Roman Rule in the New Testament: New Perspectives (Companions to the New Testament) by Richard J. Cassidy
Buy used from: $64.46 |
 | Rituals and Power: The Roman Imperial Cult in Asia Minor (Cambridge Paperback Library) by S. R. F. Price
Buy new: $35.69 / Used from: $26.90 A must-have, seminal book on imperial cult, cited everywhere
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 | The Power of Images in the Age of Augustus (Thomas Spencer Jerome Lectures) by Paul Zanker
Buy new: $16.10 / Used from: $9.93 Often-cited, basically a must-have for Roman Religion
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 | Matthew and Empire: Initial Explorations by Warren Carter
Buy new: $26.54 / Used from: $9.96 Good coverage of emperor cult and imperial theology
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 | Matthew and the Margins: A Sociopolitical and Religious Reading (Bible and Liberation Series) by Warren Carter
Buy new: $30.40 / Used from: $33.51 His earlier, more scholarly book
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 | The New Testament: Introducing the Way of Discipleship
Buy new: $24.00 / Used from: $6.96 Mostly applies the Imperial Context approach across the New Testament
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 | In Search of Paul: How Jesus' Apostle Opposed Rome's Empire with God's Kingdom by John Dominic Crossan
Buy used from: $2.74 Good popularization of recent scholarly trends, not original findings
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 | Liberating Paul: The Justice of God and the Politics of the Apostle (The Bible & Liberation) by Neil Elliott
Buy used from: $4.70 |
 | Paul and the Roman Imperial Order
Buy new: $27.38 / Used from: $12.50 Edited collection by Horsley
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 | Paul and Politics
Buy new: $39.95 / Used from: $20.90 Edited collection by Horsley
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 | Paul and Empire
Buy new: $34.15 / Used from: $16.45 Edited collection by Horsley
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 | Religion and Empire: People, Power, and the Life of the Spirit (Facets) by Richard A. Horsley
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $3.60 Horsley
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 | Hearing the Whole Story by Richard A. Horsley
Buy new: $29.95 / Used from: $14.84 Horsley
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 | Binding the Strong Man: A Political Reading of Mark's Story of Jesus by Ched Myers
Buy used from: $8.73 Seminal book showing how to read NT as political rebuttal to imperial ideology and conditions
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 | Christianity and the Rhetoric of Empire: The Development of Christian Discourse (Sather Classical Lectures, Vol 55) by Averil Cameron
Buy new: $26.95 / Used from: $13.60 |
 | Unveiling Empire: Reading Revelation Then and Now (Bible & Liberation Series) by Wes Howard-Brook
Buy new: $19.14 / Used from: $16.16 Maximally emphasizes and covers the Roman Imperial context of Revelation
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 | The Book of Revelation: Apocalypse and Empire by Leonard L. Thompson
Buy new: $60.00 / Used from: $22.67 Maximally emphasizes and covers the Roman Imperial context of Revelation. Freisen likes this book.
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 | What Saint Paul Really Said: Was Paul of Tarsus the Real Founder of Christianity? by N. T. Wright
Buy new: $9.52 / Used from: $4.98 Good chapter "Herald of the King" re: counternarrative to imperial theology/ideology. See his several 'caesar' articles at ntwrightpage.com.
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 | Imperial Rome and Christian Triumph: The Art of the Roman Empire AD 100-450 (Oxford History of Art) by Jas Elsner
Buy used from: $13.06 |
 | The Clash of Gods: A Reinterpretation of Early Christian Art (Princeton Paperbacks) by Thomas F. Mathews
Buy new: $31.50 / Used from: $19.69 Useful pieces but flawed and confusing because he's unclear and inconsistent on the sense in which Jesus figure was and wasn't a counter-Roman ruler figure; overreactive to outdated theories
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