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Prejudice and Christian beginnings : investigating race, gender, and ethnicity in early Christian studies / edited by Laura Nasrallah and Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Discrimination--Religious aspects--Christianity.
- Discrimination.
- Prejudices--History.
- Prejudices.
- Church history--Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600.
- Church history.
- Church history--Primitive and early church.
- Racism--Religious aspects--Christianity.
- Racism.
- Sexism--Religious aspects--Christianity.
- Sexism.
- Ethnocentrism.
- History.
- Genre:
- Conference papers and proceedings.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 319 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis, MN : Fortress Press, [2009]
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Exploring the intersections of race, gender, status, and ethnicity in early Christian studies / Elisabeth Schüssler 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.
- Notes:
- Discussions of a small symposium held at Harvard University Divinity School in spring 2007.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the James A. Crawford Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780800663407
- 0800663403
- OCLC:
- 297149668
- Publisher Number:
- 99935126438
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