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Symbolic blackness and ethnic difference in early Christian literature / Gay L. Byron.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Byron, Gay L.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Black people--History--To 1500.
- Black people.
- Christian literature, Early.
- Black people in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xii, 223 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Routledge, 2002.
- Contents:
- Book Cover; Title; Contents; Abbreviations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Developing a taxonomy of ethno-political rhetorics; Interpreting ethnic and color differences in early Christian writings; Egyptians, Ethiopians, Blacks, and blackness in Greco-Roman literature; Reading ethno-political rhetorics in early Christian literature; ~We were Ethiopians in our vices and sins~: ethno-political rhetorics defining vices and sins; ~Stirring up the passions~: ethno-political rhetorics defining sexual threats; ~Beyond the rivers of Ethiopia~: ethno-political rhetorics defining insiders and outsiders.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-203) and indexes.
- Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.
- Print version record.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Byron, Gay L. Symbolic blackness and ethnic difference in early Christian literature.
- ISBN:
- 0585460698
- 9780585460697
- 0203471474
- 9780203471470
- 9786610318094
- 6610318093
- 9780415243681
- 0415243688
- 9780415243698
- 0415243696
- OCLC:
- 49238671
- Publisher Number:
- 99993232795
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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