investigating race, gender, and ethnicity in early Christian studies Nasrallah, Laura Salah 1969- Schussler Fiorenza, Elisabeth 1938- text bibliography conference publication mnu Minneapolis, MN Fortress Press c2009 2009 monographic eng

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xiv, 319 p. ; illus. ; pbk ; 24 cm. Introduction : Exploring the intersections of race, gender, status, and ethnicity in early Christian studies / Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza. Part I : Race, gender, and ethnicity in early Christianity : theorizing the field of inquiry. Be not afraid of the dark : critical race theory and classical studies / Shelley P. Haley -- The Knidian Aphrodite in the Roman Empire and Hiram Powers's Greek slave : on ethnicity, gender, and desire / Laura Nasrallah -- "From every nation under heaven" : Jewish ethnicities in the Greco-Roman world / Cynthia M. Baker -- Mimicry and colonial differences : gender, ethnicity, and empire in the interpretation of Pauline imitation / Joseph A. Marchal -- "To the Jew first and also to the Greek" : reading Romans as ethnic construction / Sze-kar Wan. Part II : Race, gender, and ethnicity : shaping the discipline of early Christian studies. God's own people : specters of race, ethnicity, and gender in early Christian studies / Denise Kimber Buell -- Race, aesthetics, and gospel scholarship : embracing and subverting the aesthetic ideology / Shawn Kelley -- Race as incarnational theology : affinities between German Protestantism and racial theory / Susannah Heschel -- Religion, ethnicity, and ethnoreligion : trajectories of a discourse in German-speaking historical Jesus scholarship / Gabriella Gelardini -- "No modern Joshua-- " nationalization, Scriptures, and race / Vincent L. Wimbush -- Poetics of minority biblical criticism : identification and theorization / Fernando F. Segovia. edited by Laura Nasrallah and Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza. Discussions of a small symposium held at Harvard University Divinity School in spring 2007. Includes bibliographical references and index. Discrimination Religious aspects Christianity Prejudices History Church history Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600 Racism Religious aspects Christianity Sexism Religious aspects Christianity Ethnocentrism 270.108/PRE 9780800663407 (alk. paper) 0800663403 (alk. paper) 2009017615 DLC 090428 20120706112318.0 15716021