Prejudice and Christian beginnings
Subtitle: investigating race, gender, and ethnicity in early Christian studies
By: edited by Laura Nasrallah and Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza.
Contributors: Nasrallah, Laura Salah, 1969-; Schüssler Fiorenza, Elisabeth, 1938-
Publisher: Fortress Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Minneapolis, MN
Language: eng
Number of pages: 319
ISBN-13: 9780800663407
Subjects: Discrimination -- Religious aspects -- Christianity; Prejudices -- History; Church history -- Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600; Racism -- Religious aspects -- Christianity; Sexism -- Religious aspects -- Christianity; Ethnocentrism
Notes: Discussions of a small symposium held at Harvard University Divinity School in spring 2007.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Exploring the intersections of race, gender, status and ethnicity in early Christian studies / Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza; title: Part I: Race, gender, and ethnicity in early Christianity : theorizing the field of inquiry; title: Be not afraid of the dark : critical race theory and classical studies / Shelley P. Haley; title: Ethnicity, gender, and desire : the Knidian Aphrodite in the Roman Empire and Hiram Powers's Greek slave / Laura Nasrallah; title: From every nation under heaven : Jewish ethnicities in the Greco-Roman world / Cynthia M. Baker; title: Mimicry and colonial differences : gender, ethnicity, and empire in the interpretation of Pauline imitation / Joseph Marchal; title: To the Jew first and also to the Greek reading Romans as ethnic construction / Sze-kar Wan; title: Part II: Race, gender, and ethnicity : shaping the discipline of early Christian studies; title: God's own people : specters of race, ethnicity, and gender in early Christian studies / Denise Kimber Buell; title: Race, aesthetics, and gospel scholarship : embracing and subverting the aesthetic ideology / Shawn Kelley; title: Race as incarnational theology : affinities between German Protestantism and racial theory / Susannah Heschel; title: Religion, ethnicity, and ethno-religion : trajectories of a discourse in German-speaking historical Jesus scholarship / Gabriella Gelardini; title: No modern Joshua ... nationalization, Scriptures, and race / Vincent L. Wimbush; title: Poetics of minority biblical criticism : identification and theorization  / Fernando F. Segovia.