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Title:

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

Publisher:

Fortress Press,

Copyright Date:

c2009

Description:

xiv, 319 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Discrimination--Christianity.--Christianity.
Prejudices--History.
Church history--Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600
Racism--Christianity.--Christianity.
Sexism--Christianity.--Christianity.
Ethnocentrism

Other Authors:

Nasrallah, Laura Salah, 1969-
Sch©ơssler Fiorenza, Elisabeth, 1938-

Notes:

Discussions of a small symposium held at Harvard University Divinity School in spring 2007. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction -- Exploring the intersections of race, gender, status, and ethnicity in early Christian studies / Elisabeth Sch©ơssler 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.

ISBN:

0800663403 (alk. paper)
9780800663407 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)297149668

LCCN:

2009017615

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)