Prejudice and Christian beginnings :  investigating race, gender, and ethnicity in early Christian studies / 
edited by Laura Nasrallah and Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza. 
 - Minneapolis, MN :  Fortress Press,  c2009. 
 - xiv, 319 p. :  ill. ;  24 cm. 
<br/><br/> Discussions of a small symposium held at Harvard University Divinity School in spring 2007. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>Introduction -- Exploring the intersections of race, gender, status, and ethnicity in early Christian studies / Elisabeth Schüssler 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780800663407 (alk. paper) 0800663403 (alk. paper) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2009017615 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. No.: </label>GBA984465  bnb 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: </label>015357232  Uk 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Discrimination--Religious aspects--Christianity.<br/>Prejudices--History.<br/>Church history--Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600.<br/>Racism--Religious aspects--Christianity.<br/>Sexism--Religious aspects--Christianity.<br/>Ethnocentrism.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>BT745  / .P74 2009 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>270.108