This book is open access and available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. It is funded by Knowledge Unlatched. Religion, ethnicity and race are facets of human identity that have become increasingly contested in the study of the Bible — largely due to the modern discipline of biblical studies having developed in the context of Western Europe, concurrent with the emergence of various racial and imperial ideologies. The essays in this volume address Western domination by focusing on historical facets of ethnicity and race in antiquity, the identities of Jews and Christians, and the critique of scholarly ideologies and racial assumptions which have shaped this branch of study. The contributors critique various Western European and North American contexts, and bring fresh perspectives from other global contexts, providing insights into how biblical studies can escape its enmeshment in often racist notions of ethnicity, race, empire, nationhood and religion. Covering issues ranging from translation and racial stereotyping to analysing the significance of race in Genesis and the problems of an imperialist perspective, this volume is vital not only for biblical scholars but those invested in Christian, Jewish and Muslim identity.
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List of Figures List of Contributors Preface List of Abbreviations Introduction - David G. Horrell and Katharine M. Hockey, University of Exeter, UK Part I: Ethnicity and Identity in Antiquity: Jews and Christians Among Greeks and Romans Ch. 1: Society, Identity and Ethnicity in the Hellenic Worlds - Teresa Morgan, University of Oxford, UK Ch. 2: Ioudaios: Ethnicity and Translation - John Barclay, Durham University, UK Ch. 3: Identity Games in Early Christian Texts: The Letter to Diognetus - Judith Lieu, University of Cambridge, UK Part II: Ethnicity, Race and Religion in European Traditions of New Testament Scholarship Ch. 4: S.R. Driver and Higher Criticism: Mapping 'the Differences of Race' in Genesis - Gregory Cuellar, Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary, USA Ch. 5: What's in A Name? Ideologies of Volk, Rasse, and Reich in German New Testament Interpretation - Past and Present - Kathy Ehrensperger, University of Wales Trinity St David, UK Ch. 6: From Ernest Renan to Anders Behring Breivik: Continuities in Racial Stereotypes of Muslims and Jews - Halvor Moxnes, University of Oslo, Norway Ch. 7: Other Problems from a British Perspective: ‘Jewishness’, Jesus, and the New Perspective on Paul - James Crossley, St Mary's University Twickenham, UK Part III: Challenging White, Western Traditions of Interpretation: Critique and Alternatives Ch. 8: Anachronistic Whiteness and the Ethics of Interpretation - Denise Kimber Buell, Williams College, USA Ch. 9: The Bible in the Bush: The First 'Literate' Batswana Bible Readers - Musa Dube, University of Botswana, Botswana Ch. 10 Exploring the (In)Visibility of the Christ-believers’ ‘Trans-Ethnicity’: A Lowland Filipina Catholic's Perspective - Ma Marilou S. Ibita, Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium Ch. 11: Double Vision for Revolutionary Religion: Race Relations, Moral Analogies, and African-American Biblical Interpretation - Love Sechrest, Fuller Theological Seminary, USA Ch. 12: Re-examining the Master’s Tools: Considerations on Biblical Studies’ Race Problem - Wei Hsien Wan, University of Exeter, UK Indexes Index of Ancient Sources Index of Modern Authors Index of Subjects
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This volume is important and deserves to be discussed broadly in the field of biblical studies. Its interests are wide and timely, expanding our understanding not only of ancient texts but also of issues related to modern biblical interpretation.
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Examines these problematized aspects of identity and the imperial ideologies within biblical studies and its construction as a discipline in Western Europe.
Identity is one of the key issues facing the academy generally, so this volume is timely and topical

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780567692924
Publisert
2019-12-26
Utgiver
Vendor
T.& T.Clark Ltd
Vekt
358 gr
Høyde
234 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Aldersnivå
U, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
256

Biographical note

Katherine M. Hockey is Kirby Laing Postdoctoral Fellow in New Testament at the University of Aberdeen, UK. David Horrell is Professor of New Testament Studies, and the Director of the Centre for Biblical Studies at the University of Exeter, UK.