The Ethiopian Eunuch and Conceptuality in the Imperial Imagination of Biblical Studies
Seiten
2024
T.& T.Clark Ltd (Verlag)
978-0-567-70367-5 (ISBN)
T.& T.Clark Ltd (Verlag)
978-0-567-70367-5 (ISBN)
- Noch nicht erschienen
- Versandkostenfrei
- Auch auf Rechnung
- Artikel merken
Gifford Rhamie addresses the contentious question, “why cannot the Ethiopian eunuch in Acts 8:26-40 be conceptualised as a Jew in the British academy?” Rhamie uses postcolonial studies and theory to examine the Ethiopian eunuch’s ethnoreligious agency, finding two epistemological lenses: whiteness and ‘critical conviviality’. The former is employed in the function of deconstructing, while the latter encourages opening one’s conceptuality in a multidimensional way, functioning to reconstruct analyses for agency.
Turning to the early Church Fathers, Rhamie argues that the anti-Jewish discourse of the time, the Adversus Judaeos trope, functioned teleologically to shift the Ethiopian eunuch’s ethnoreligious agency from an Afroasiatic Jewish to a Graeco-Gentile ideal. In more recent years, the racialised imagination of the academy further identifies the eunuch as a Graeco-Roman Gentile. His being denied a Jewish identity appears to foreclose an exploration of a dynamic agency that could open up new opportunities and possibilities of (re-)conceptualising Jewish history, the Book of Acts, and Christian origins. Rhamie asserts that ‘Black lives matter’ for Jewishness in the Book of Acts and for Christian origins.
Turning to the early Church Fathers, Rhamie argues that the anti-Jewish discourse of the time, the Adversus Judaeos trope, functioned teleologically to shift the Ethiopian eunuch’s ethnoreligious agency from an Afroasiatic Jewish to a Graeco-Gentile ideal. In more recent years, the racialised imagination of the academy further identifies the eunuch as a Graeco-Roman Gentile. His being denied a Jewish identity appears to foreclose an exploration of a dynamic agency that could open up new opportunities and possibilities of (re-)conceptualising Jewish history, the Book of Acts, and Christian origins. Rhamie asserts that ‘Black lives matter’ for Jewishness in the Book of Acts and for Christian origins.
Gifford Rhamie is Senior Lecturer of Ethnicity and Culture in Early Christianity & Contemporary Praxis at Newbold College of Higher Education, UK.
Acknowledgements
Dedication
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
Chapter 1. Finding a Hermeneutic
Chapter 2. The Whitening of the Ethiopian Eunuch: The Politics of Jewish and Graeco-Gentile Identities within the Patristic Corpus
Chapter 3. Convivialising Acts, its Author and Jewish Identity
Chapter 4. Pilgrimage, Representation and the African Jew
Conclusion: Black Lives Matter
Bibliography
Index
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 13.6.2024 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | The Library of New Testament Studies |
| Verlagsort | Edinburgh |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Themenwelt | Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte |
| ISBN-10 | 0-567-70367-3 / 0567703673 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-567-70367-5 / 9780567703675 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
| Haben Sie eine Frage zum Produkt? |
Mehr entdecken
aus dem Bereich
aus dem Bereich
von Athanasius bis Gregor dem Großen
Buch | Softcover (2024)
C.H.Beck (Verlag)
CHF 18,90
mein Leben mit Benedikt XVI.
Buch | Hardcover (2023)
Verlag Herder
CHF 39,90
