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

by Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza and Laura Nasrallah

Book Overview

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 New Testament, classics, and Jewish studies. These essays examine the intersection...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0800697642
• ISBN13: 9780800697648
• Release Date: October 2010
• Publisher: Augsburg Fortress Publishing
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.9"