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About the Author
Jin Young Choi is associate professor of New Testament and Christian Origins 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.
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.
Reviews
This volume is an important and urgently needed intervention into New Testament scholarship in multiple ways. 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, the book acknowledges the recent surge of scholarly work on ethnicity and race in the Classics and in the study of early Christianity, and goes past them, offering not only historical ideas of race or ethnicity, but also intersectional analyses that balance between past texts and present realities. The essays treat the rhetorical othering of women prophets, the marginalization of Hagar's children, the fraught topics of mixed marriages and immigration, the ways in which racialized groups may resist even apostolic characterizations of their identity, and the possibilities of reconstructing the memory and mourning of women. These essays take seriously the experiences and critical scholarly analyses of women of color, and the book opens up new ways of understanding New Testament texts. -- Laura Nasrallah, Yale Divinity School
Book Information
ISBN 9781498591584
Author Jin Young Choi
Format Hardback
Page Count 164
Imprint Lexington Books
Publisher Lexington Books
Weight(grams) 431g
Dimensions(mm) 231mm * 160mm * 19mm