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Minoritized Women Reading Race and Ethnicity

Intersectional Approaches to Constructed Identity and Early Christian Texts

Minoritized Women Reading Race and Ethnicity

Intersectional Approaches to Constructed Identity and Early Christian Texts

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Publisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 9781498591607
Number of Pages: 164
Width: 15.5 cm
Height: 21.8 cm
Nonwhite women primarily appear as marginalized voices, if at all, in volumes that address constructions of race/ethnicity and early Christian texts. Employing an intersectional approach, the contributors analyze historical, cultural, literary, and ideological constructions of racial/ethnic identities, which intersect with gender/sexuality class, religion, slavery, and/or power. Given their small numbers in academic biblical studies, this book represents a critical mass of nonwhite women scholars and offers a critique of dominant knowledge production. Filling a significant epistemological gap, this seminal text provides provocative, innovative, and critical insights into constructions of race/ethnicity in ancient and modern texts and contexts.

Chapter One

Introduction by Mitzi J. Smith and Jin Young Choi

Chapter Two

Weren’t You with Jesus the Galilean?: An Intersectional Reading of Ethnicity, Diasporic Trauma, and Mourning in the Gospel of Matthew by Jin Young Choi

Chapter Three

In Christ, but Not of Christ: Reading Identity Differences Differently in the Letter to the Galatians by Jennifer T. Kaalund

Chapter Four

Hagar’s Children Still Ain’t Free: Paul’s Counterterror Rhetoric, Constructed Identity, Enslavement, and Galatians 3:28 by Mitzi J. Smith

Chapter Five

Feminized-Minoritized Paul? A Womanist Reading of Paul’s Body in the Corinthian Context by Angela Parker

Chapter Six

Gender, Race, and the Normalization of Prophecy in Early Christianity and Korean and Korean-American Christianity by Jung H. Choi

Chapter Seven

You Have Become Children of Sarah: Reading 1 Peter 3:1–6 through the Intersectionality of Asian Immigrant Wives, Patriarchy, and Honorary Whiteness by Janette H. Ok

About the Contributors

Jin Young Choi, Mitzi J. Smith

Mitzi J. Smith is the J. Davison Philips Professor of New Testament at Columbia Theological Seminary. and author of Toward Decentering the New Testament: A Reintroduction.

Jin Young Choi is professor of New Testament and Christian Origins and the Baptist Missionary Training School Professorial Chair for Biblical Studies at Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School and author of Postcolonial Discipleship of Embodiment: An Asian and Asian American Feminist Reading of the Gospel of Mark.



This volume is an urgently needed intervention into New Testament scholarship. First, it highlights the work of women of color within New Testament Studies, despite the structural racism that has produced a guild that is by vast majority male and white. Second, it acknowledges the recent surge of scholarship on ethnicity and race in the Classics and in the study of early Christianity, and exceeds them, offering historical ideas of race or ethnicity, and also intersectional analyses that balance past texts and present realities.... These essays take seriously the experiences and critical scholarly analyses of women of color and open up new ways of understanding New Testament texts. -- Laura Nasrallah, Yale Divinity School Wow. Six women-African American, Asian American, and Asian-collaborate to produce essays on key New Testament texts sensitive to the intersections of race/ethnicity and gender/sexuality. The work is unapologetically ideological, theoretically sophisticated, focused on the materiality of bodies, embodied voices, performance, and the relevance of both ancient and modern contexts. A milestone.... -- Shelly Matthews, Brite Divinity School Employing disparate methodologies with great sophistication, the volume offers unique perspectives that are deeply disruptive and profoundly formative. Contributors read the texts astutely and engage issues of race and ethnicity in powerful ways. A must-read in this political context. -- Raj Nadella, Columbia Theological Seminary

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