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| Title: Striking New Images. Roman Imperial Coinage and the New Testament World Secondary Title: JSNT.S 134 Type: Book Year: 1996 Abstract: "After a twelve-page general introduction, this volume presents essays on legionary aquilae as military image - the background to Mt 24:28/Lk 17:37; the apotheosis of the Roman emperor [§ 35-971]; a numismatic clue to Acts 19:23-41 - the Ephesian cistophori of Claudius and Agrippina [§ 32-214]; Nero's Rome - images of the city on imperial coinage [§ 34-887]; Roman triumph imagery in the Pauline letters - the background of 2 Corinthians 2:14-16 and Col 2:15; Hadrian the wandering emperor [§ 34-888]; Hadrian and the Nero redivivus myth [§ 33-313]; and the Roman imperial adventus coinage of Hadrian and the parousia of Christ [§35-295]. Also included are a general conclusion on numismatics and the NT, an annotated resource list on numismatics and the NT, and an appendix on the "travel sestertia" of Hadrian. Kreitzer is tutor of NT at Regent's Park College, Oxford". Keywords: Archaeology, topography, local and regional history |