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Prejudice and Christian beginnings : investigating race, gender, and ethnicity in early Christian studies / edited by Laura Nasrallah and Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza.

Contributor(s): Publication details: Minneapolis, MN : Fortress Press, c2009.Description: xiv, 319 p. ; illus. ; pbk ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780800663407 (alk. paper)
  • 0800663403 (alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 270.108/PRE
Contents:
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.
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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.

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