Hidden Criticism?

• Preface
• p. vii

• Abbreviations
• p. xii

• Chapter 1
• Analogy
• p. 1

• 1
• Introduction
• p. 1

• 1.1
• Point of Departure
• p. 1

• 1.2
• Goodenough's Proposal: Veiled Criticism of the Roman Empire in Somn. 2
• p. 2

• 1.3
• Philo's Political Theory
• p. 3

• 2
• Analysis of Somn. 2
• p. 5

• 2.1
• Preliminary Remarks on Procedure
• p. 5

• 2.2
• Somn. 2 and the Allegory of the Soul
• p. 6

• 2.3
• Political Allegory in Somn. 2?
• p. 8

• 3
• Conclusions
• p. 17

• 3.1
• Summary
• p. 17

• 3.2
• Outlook
• p. 19

• Chapter 2
• Approach
• p. 21

• 1
• Counter-Imperial "Echoes" in the Subtext
• p. 21

• 2
• Evaluating Hypotheses
• p. 24

• 2.1
• On the Nature of Criteria
• p. 24

• 2.2
• The Structure of Historical Inferences
• p. 26

• 2.3
• Bayes's Theorem
• p. 27

• 2.4
• Explanatory Potential and Background Plausibility of a Hypothesis
• p. 28

• 2.5
• Background Knowledge
• p. 30

• 2.6
• Comparing Hypotheses
• p. 33

• 2.7
• Conclusions
• p. 34

• 3
• "Echoes" of the Empire
• p. 35

• 3.1
• Hays's Criteria for Identifying Scriptural "Echoes"
• p. 35

• 3.2
• Application to Imperial Ideology
• p. 36

• 3.3
• Methodological Evaluation
• p. 40

• 4
• Excursus: Inference to the Best Explanation
• p. 46

• Chapter 3
• Discourse Context
• p. 50

• 1
• Introduction
• p. 50

• 2
• James C. Scott's Categories
• p. 50

• 2.1
• The Public Transcript
• p. 50

• 2.2
• The Hidden Transcript
• p. 51

• 2.3
• The Hidden Transcript and the Public Sphere
• p. 52

• 3
• Application to the Pauline Letter
• p. 54

• 3.1
• The Pauline Letters as Hidden Transcript in Veiled Form?
• p. 54

• 3.2
• Pauline Letters as Hidden Transcript in Pure Form?
• p. 58

• 3.3
• Conclusions
• p. 65

• Chapter 4
• Roman Context
• p. 68

• 1
• The Public Transcript
• p. 68

• 1.1
• Criticism within the Framework of the Public Transcript?
• p. 68

• 1.2
• Different Objects of Criticism
• p. 70

• 1.3
• Conclusions: Modification of the Object of Criticism
• p. 90

• 2
• Roman Ideology in the Environment of Paul
• p. 92

• 2.1
• Introduction
• p. 92

• 2.2
• Imperial Cults as an Expression of Imperial Ideology
• p. 93

• 2.3
• Other Expressions of Imperial Ideology
• p. 104

• 2.4
• Conclusions
• p. 108

• Chapter 5
• Pauline Context
• p. 110

• 1
• Counter-Imperial Attitude?
• p. 110

• 1.1
• Introduction
• p. 110

• 1.2
• N. T. Wright: The Empire as Oppressor of God's People
• p. 110

• 1.3
• John M. G. Barclay: The Empire as a Consciously Ignored Peripheral Phenomenon
• p. 113

• 1.4
• Evaluation: What is the Real Plight?
• p. 114

• 2
• From Attitude to Expression: Modifications of the Echo-Hypothesis...
• p. 125

• 2.1
• Paul's Personality as Obstacle for the Echo-Hypothesis
• p. 125

• 2.2
• Two Modification of the Classical Echo-Hypothesis
• p. 129

• Chapter 6
• Explanatory Context
• p. 139

• 1
• Introducing Explanatory Potential
• p. 139

• 2
• Establishing Parallels between Paul and the Empire
• p. 140

• 2.1
• Termini Technici
• p. 140

• 2.2
• Chance?
• p. 141

• 2.3
• True and False Alternatives
• p. 143

• 3
• From Intertextuality to Criticism: Neutral Parallel or Antithesis?
• p. 146

• 3.1
• Non-Roman "Echoes" with and without Counter-Imperial "Resonance"
• p. 146

• 3.2
• Imperial References with and without Critical Intention: Neutral Parallel or Antithesis?
• p. 150

• Chapter 7
• Conclusions
• p. 156

• 1
• Summary
• p. 156

• 2
• Outlook
• p. 158

• Bibliography
• p. 161

• Index of Ancient Sources
• p. 181

• Index of Modern Authors
• p. 189

• Index of Subjects
• p. 194