Ethnicity and the Bible

by Priest, Dana de

• ISBN13: 9780391041264
• ISBN10: 0391041266
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-09-01
• Publisher: Humanities Pr

Summary

This international collection of twenty-one essays examines the construction of ethnic identities both within the Bible itself and in biblical interpretation. The major themes of the volumes are: ethnocentrism, indigeneity, ethics and the politics of identity. This publication has also been published in paperback, please click here for details.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	vii
List of Contributors	ix
Introduction
Interpreting Ethnicity: Method, Hermeneutics, Ethics	3	(22)
Mark G. Brett
PART I: ETHNICITY IN THE BIBLE
Hebrew Bible
Ethnicity and Early Israel	25	(32)
Diana Edelman
Human Solidarity and Ethnic Identity: Israel's Self-definition in the Genealogical System of Genesis	57	(20)
Frank Crusemann
The Ger in the Priestly Laws of the Pentateuch	77	(12)
Rolf Rendtorff
The Ideology of Identity in Chronicles	89	(28)
Jonathan E. Dyck
Between Ezra and Isaiah: Exclusion, Transformation and Inclusion of the ``Foreigner'' in Post-exilic Biblical Theology	117	(26)
Daniel L. Smith-Christopher
The Universal Horizon of Biblical Particularism	143	(28)
Jon D. Levenson
New Testament
Christianity and Ethnicity in the Gospel of Matthew	171	(26)
David Sim
`Neither Jew nor Greek': Multiculturalism and the New Perspective on Paul	197	(18)
John M.G. Barclay
Group Boundaries and Intergroup Conflict in Galatians: A New Reading of Gal. 5:13-6:10	215	(26)
Philip F. Esler
The `Nation' of Strangers: Social Contempt and its Theological Interpretation in Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity	241	(30)
Reinhard Feldmeier
Anti-Semitic and Racist Prejudices in Titus 1:10-16	271	(26)
Wolfgang Stegemann
PART II: CULTURE AND INTERPRETATION
Indigenous Peoples
Biblical Interpretation from the Perspective of Indigenous Cultures of Latin America (Mayas, Kunas, and Quechuas)	297	(18)
Pablo Richard
Does God Speak Miskitu? The Bible and Ethnic Identity among the Miskitu of Nicaragua	315	(28)
Susan Hawley
Ethnicity, Identity and Hermeneutics: An Indian Tribal Perspective	343	(16)
Thanzauva
R.L. Hnuni
The Rainbow Serpent, the Cross, and the Fax Machine: Australian Aboriginal Responses to the Bible	359	(22)
Lynne Hume
The Politics of Interpretation
Reading as a Philistine: The Ancient and Modern History of a Cultural Slur	381	(38)
David Jobling
Catherine Rose
Orientalism, Ethnonationalism and Transnationalism: Shifting Identities and Biblical Interpretation	419	(12)
R.S. Sugirtharajah
Cultural Bias in European and North American Biblical Scholarship	431	(18)
John Riches
On New Testament Interpretation and Ethnocentrism	449	(20)
Pieter F. Craffert
Racial and Ethnic Minorities in Biblical Studies	469	(24)
Fernando F. Segovia
Index of Authors	493	(6)
Index of Biblical References	499