This book examines the world of discursive resistance among subalterns in early Jewish and Greco-Roman antiquity, then sets Luke's hidden criticism of imperial Rome in the Acts of the Apostles and Paul's speech on the Areopagus in Acts 17 in that context.

Drew J. Strait is a pastor theologian who specializes in political idolatry, peacemaking, and how congregations can challenge violent extremism. Strait regularly teaches on Christian nationalism and offers a short course for the public called "Resisting Christian Nationalism with the Gospel of Peace." He teaches at Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary and resides in South Bend, Indiana, with his wife and three kids.

Chapter One-The Acts of the Apostles and Empire

Part I: Objects of Resistance
Chapter Two-Profiling Power: Divine Honors and Kingship Literature
Chapter Three-Hybrid Divine Honors in the Epigraphic Record
Part II: Strategies of Resistance
Chapter Four-Jewish Discursive Resistance
Chapter Five-The First Commandment and Hellenistic Monarchy
Chapter Six-The Second Commandment and Hellenistic Monarchy
Chapter Seven-The Wisdom of Solomon and Empire

Part III: Discursive Resistance and the Acts of the Apostles
Chapter Eight-The Politics of Luke: Acts and the Cosmology of Empire
Chapter Nine-The Areopagus Speech and Political Idolatry
Chapter Ten-The Areopagus Speech as Resistance Literature?