TY - BOOK AU - Nasrallah,Laura Salah AU - Schussler Fiorenza,Elisabeth TI - Prejudice and Christian beginnings: investigating race, gender, and ethnicity in early Christian studies SN - 9780800663407 (alk. paper) U1 - 270.108/PRE PY - 2009/// CY - Minneapolis, MN PB - Fortress Press KW - Discrimination KW - Religious aspects KW - Christianity KW - Prejudices KW - History KW - Church history KW - Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600 KW - Racism KW - Sexism KW - Ethnocentrism N1 - Discussions of a small symposium held at Harvard University Divinity School in spring 2007; Includes bibliographical references and index; 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 ER -