Seeing Rape and Robbery: harpagmaós and the Philippians Christ Hymn (Phil. 2:5-11)


In the first century ce, images of Roman imperial figures subduing foreign, sexualized women were installed throughout the civic spaces of the Empire as a celebration of victory over other nations. The well-known reliefs on the Sebasteion in Aphrodisias are just one example. Images like these domina...

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Subtitles:Visual Rhetoric and Biblical Interpretation
Main Author: Shaner, Katherine Ann 1976- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2017
In: Biblical interpretation
Year: 2017, Volume: 25, Issue: 3, Pages: 342-363
RelBib Classification:CD Christianity and Culture
HC New Testament
NBE Anthropology
NCF Sexual ethics
TB Antiquity
Further subjects:B Philippians
 Sebasteion
 philology
 Roman Empire
 ἁρπαγμός / harpagmos
 Christ Hymn
 Aphrodisias

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