Assessing representations of the imperial cult in New Testament studies

dc.contributor.author	Botha, Pieter J.J.
dc.date.accessioned	2009-03-09T10:17:15Z
dc.date.available	2009-03-09T10:17:15Z
dc.date.issued	2004
dc.description.abstract	A distinct conceptualisation of the imperial cult is common in NT scholarship, in which worship of the emperor is portrayed as a "foreign" development which served primarily political aims, with little integrity and no serious religious significance. This depiction does not do justice to the evidence and is basically ethnocentric. That the imperial cult provides us with a crucial window on the mentality of the Roman Period comes closer to the truth. A few aspects of early Christian literature and history which might be reinterpreted in the light of a more comprehensive understanding of the imperial cult are briefly noted.	en_US
dc.description.uri	http://explore.up.ac.za/record=b1525162	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Botha PJJ 2004, 'Assessing representations of the imperial cult in New Testament studies', Verbum et Ecclesia, vol. 25, no. 1, pp. 14-45. [http://www.journals.co.za/ej/ejour_verbum.html]	en_US
dc.identifier.issn	1609-9982
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/2263/9180
dc.language.iso	en	en_US
dc.publisher	Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria	en_US
dc.rights	Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria	en_US
dc.subject	Imperial Cult	en_US
dc.title	Assessing representations of the imperial cult in New Testament studies	en_US
dc.type	Article	en_US