Prejudice and Christian Beginnings: Investigating Race, Gender, and Ethnicity in Early Christianity

While scholars of the New Testament and its Roman environment have recently focused attention on ethnicity and gender, the two questions have often been discussed separately and without reference to the contemporary critical study of race theory.

This interdisciplinary volume addresses this lack by drawing together new essays by prominent scholars in the fields of the New Testament, classics, and Jewish studies.

These essays examine the intersection of three worlds:

First, the construction of gender and race under the Roman Empire

Second, the crucible of nineteenth-century thinking about race and empire in which New Testament and classical studies were given definitive form

Third, the contemporary theoretical frameworks and methods hold the greatest promise for a renewed understanding of the New Testament and early Christian history.

Author: Laura Nasrallah
Publisher: Augsburg Fortress Publishing
Published: 10/01/2010
Pages: 338
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.19lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9780800697648

About the Author
Nasrallah, Laura: -

Laura Nasrallah is an Assistant Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity at Harvard Divinity School and the author of An Ecstasy of Folly: Prophecy and Authority in Early Christianity (2003).

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