Rumors of Resistance: Status Reversals and Hidden Transcripts in the Gospel of Luke (Emerging Scholars)

James C. Scotts discussion of hidden transcripts of defiance or resistance among subordinate groups has been taken up by scholars who claim to detect elements of defiant transcripts in biblical texts. In Rumors of Resistance, Amanda C. Miller uses Scotts theory to explain tensions within the narrative of the Gospel of Luke, between more accommodationist narratives and poetic or parabolic passages that announce a dramatic eschatological reversal. Miller concludes that Lukes audience would have been challenged to resist the dominant values of Roman imperial culture even as the narrative framework of Luke partially obscures that transcript.

Amanda C. Miller is assistant professor of New Testament and Greek in the School of Religion at Belmont University, and an ordained Baptist minister. This is a revision of her dissertation at Union Presbyterian Seminary under the direction of John Carroll.