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[Bible] Episode 252: Steed Davidson - The Bible’s Ambivalence Toward Empire

The Bible For Normal People

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The Flexibility of Biblical Texts

The Bible was written in a context of a colonized or imperialized people. The Roman Empire is moving to endorse Christianity at the time, he says. "Bible texts may not be as anti-imperial and resistant to empire as we think that they are"

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