Ethnicity, race, religion: identities and ideologies in early Jewish and Christian texts, and in modern biblical interpretation
Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Contributors -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1 Ethnicity, race, religion: Concepts and theories -- 2 Aims of the volume and summary of the essays -- 3 Emerging themes -- References -- Part 1: Ethnicity, Religion, and Identity in Ant...
| Summary: | Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Contributors -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1 Ethnicity, race, religion: Concepts and theories -- 2 Aims of the volume and summary of the essays -- 3 Emerging themes -- References -- Part 1: Ethnicity, Religion, and Identity in Antiquity: Jews and Christians in the Hellenic World -- Chapter 1: Society, Identity, and Ethnicity in the Hellenic World -- 1 Early Greek views -- 2 The Hellenistic world -- 3 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 2: Ἰουδαῖος: Ethnicity and Translation -- 1 Ἰουδαῖος as ethnikon - and as 'ethnic' label? -- 2 The question of translation -- References -- Chapter 3: Identity Games in Early Christian Texts: The Letter to Diognetus -- 1 Which god and what manner of worship? -- 2 The θεοσέβεια of the Christians -- 3 As new this γένος or ἐπιτήδευμα -- References -- Part 2: Ethnicity, Race, and Religion in European Traditions of Biblical Scholarship -- Chapter 4: S. R. Driver and Higher Criticism: Mapping 'The Differences of Race' in Genesis -- 1 Forging a middle position -- 2 Driver's assurance in Western European prowess -- 3 Driver's anthropology of race -- 4 Geographical starting points for white humanity -- 5 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 5: What's in a Name?: Ideologies of Volk, Rasse, and Reich in German New Testament Interpretation Past and Present -- 1 Herder and the 'Volk' -- 2 Harnack and 'the Third Kind' -- 3 Ethnicity and identity in current German-language New Testament interpretation -- 4 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 6: From Ernest Renan to Anders Behring Breivik: Continuities in Racial Stereotypes of Muslims and Jews -- 1 Ernest Renan -- 2 Anders Behring Breivik -- 3 Norwegian anti-Muslim positions -- 4 Anti-Semitism and attitudes to other minorities in Norway -- 5 'Religionization' or politicization of identities -- References Chapter 7: Other Problems from a British Perspective: 'Jewishness', Jesus, and the New Perspective on Paul -- 1 'Jewishness' according to New Testament scholarship -- 2 Neoliberalism, postmodernity, and race -- 3 N. T. Wright's Jewish (but not that Jewish) Jesus and Paul -- Concluding remarks -- References -- Part 3: Challenging White, Western Traditions of Interpretation: Critique and Alternatives -- Chapter 8: Anachronistic Whiteness and the Ethics of Interpretation -- 1 The whiteness of New Testament and early Christian studies -- 2 Inheritances: The construction of the fields of biblical and early Christian studies -- 3 Re-encountering ancient sources -- Conclusion: The price of the ticket -- References -- Chapter 9: The Bible in the Bush: The First 'Literate' Batswana Bible Readers -- 1 My response and implications for translations -- 2 The first Batswana Bible readers -- 3 Setswana Bible translation: Whose interests are served? -- 4 An English Setswana -- 5 Decolonizing the English Setswana: Subversive ways of reading -- 6 Reclaiming Badimo as sacred figures: Batswana reading strategies -- References -- Chapter 10: Exploring the (In)Visibility of the Christ-believers' 'Trans-ethnicity': A Lowland Filipina Catholic's Perspective -- 1 The lowland Filipino Catholic interpreter -- 2 The biblical text -- 3 Hermeneutics -- 4 Responding to the predominantly Western assumptions -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 11: Double Vision for Revolutionary Religion: Race Relations, Moral Analogies, and African-American Biblical Interpretation -- 1 Revolutionary religion: Interracial and intra-racial analogues in 'To Minister in the Valley' (1968) -- 2 A second look at the Good Samaritan: An African-American reading of Lk. 10.25-32 -- Conclusion: Analogues to the Parable of the Good Samaritan in African-American interpretation -- References Chapter 12: Re-examining the Master's Tools: Considerations on Biblical Studies' Race Problem -- 1 The historico-geographical legacy -- 2 Markers of biblical studies' Eurocentrism -- 3 Owning our situatedness -- 4 Moving towards interdependence -- References -- Index of Ancient Sources -- Index of Modern Authors -- Index of Subjects |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. Description based on print version record |
| ISBN: | 056767732X |