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BOOK (PRINT)
Title Ethnicity and the Bible / edited by Mark G. Brett
Published Leiden ; New York : E.J. Brill, 1996
Location Call number ITEM STATUS
 BASEMENT STORAGE - GFA  BS661 .E82 1996  Nearby on shelf  AVAILABLE
Description x, 509 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Series Biblical interpretation series, v. 19
Biblical interpretation series ; v. 19
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Summary "Contemporary social theory has been much concerned with the re-assertion of ethnic identities in both Western and non-Western politics. This international collection of twenty-one essays contributes to the wider conversation by examining the construction and contestation of ethnic identities both within the Bible itself and in biblical interpretation. An introductory essay brings into focus the main themes of the bookethnocentrism, indigenity, concepts of culture and the politics of identity - and highlights the ethical issues arising. Part One explores selected texts from the Hebrew Bible and from the New Testament, making use of methodological perspectives drawn from a range of disciplines. Part Two, Culture and Interpretation, looks at examples of how ethnicity figures both in the popular use of the Bible and in professional biblical interpretation."--BOOK JACKET
Subject Ethnology in the Bible
Ethnicity -- Biblical teaching
Academic Subj. Bible
Alternate Author Brett, Mark G
ISBN 9004103171 alkaline paper
Table of Contents
 Acknowledgments 
 List of Contributors 
 Interpreting Ethnicity: Method, Hermeneutics, Ethics / Mark G. Brett3
 Ethnicity and Early Israel / Diana Edelman25
 Human Solidarity and Ethnic Identity: Israel's Self-definition in the Genealogical System of Genesis / Frank Crusemann57
 Ger in the Priestly Laws of the Pentateuch / Rolf Rendtorff77
 Ideology of Identity in Chronicles / Jonathan E. Dyck89
 Between Ezra and Isaiah: Exclusion, Transformation and Inclusion of the "Foreigner" in Post-exilic Biblical Theology / Daniel L. Smith-Christopher117
 Universal Horizon of Biblical Particularism / Jon D. Levenson143
 Christianity and Ethnicity in the Gospel of Matthew / David Sim171
 'Neither Jew nor Greek': Multiculturalism and the New Perspective on Paul / John M. G. Barclay197
 Group Boundaries and Intergroup Conflict in Galatians: A New Reading of Gal. 5:13-6:10 / Philip F. Esler215
 'Nation' of Strangers: Social Contempt and its Theological Interpretation in Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity / Reinhard Feldmeier241
 Anti-Semitic and Racist Prejudices in Titus 1:10-16 / Wolfgang Stegemann271
 Biblical Interpretation from the Perspective of Indigenous Cultures of Latin America (Mayas, Kunas, and Quechuas) / Pablo Richard297
 Does God Speak Miskitu? The Bible and Ethnic Identity among the Miskitu of Nicaragua / Susan Hawley315
 Ethnicity, Identity and Hermeneutics: An Indian Tribal Perspective Thanzauva / R.L. Hnuni343
 Rainbow Serpent, the Cross, and the Fax Machine: Australian Aboriginal Responses to the Bible / Lynne Hume359
 Reading as a Philistine: The Ancient and Modern History of a Cultural Slur / David Jobling, Catherine Rose381
 Orientalism, Ethnonationalism and Transnationalism: Shifting Identities and Biblical Interpretation / R. S. Sugirtharajah419
 Cultural Bias in European and North American Biblical Scholarship / John Riches431
 On New Testament Interpretation and Ethnocentrism / Pieter F. Craffert449
 Racial and Ethnic Minorities in Biblical Studies / Fernando F. Segovia469
 Index of Authors493
 Index of Biblical References499



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