Ethnicity and the Bible

This volume reflects the diversities of culture both within biblical texts and among the interpretative communities for whom the Bible is a focus of thought and action. Part One, Ethnicity in the Bible, 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 use of the Bible by indigenous peoples and in professional biblical interpretation. --from vendor description.

Originally published: Leiden ; New York : E.J. Brill, 1996, in series: Biblical interpretation series.

Interpreting ethnicity: method, hermeneutics, ethics / Mark G. Brett -- Ethnicity and early Israel / Diana Edelman -- Human solidarity and ethnic identity: Israel's self-definition in the genealogical system of Genesis / Frank Crüsemann -- The Gēr in the priestly laws of the Pentateuch / Rolf Rendtorff -- The ideology of identity in Chronicles / Jonathan E. Dyck -- Between Ezra and Isaiah: exclusion, transformation and inclusion of the "foreigner" in post-exilic biblical theology / Daniel L. Smith-Christopher -- The universal horizon of biblical particularism / Jon D. Levenson -- Christianity and ethnicity in the Gospel of Matthew / David Sim -- 'Neither Jew nor Greek': multiculturalism and the new perspective of Paul / John M.G. Barclay -- Group boundaries and intergroup conflict in Galatians: a new reading of Gal. 5:13-6:10 / Philip F. Esler -- The 'nation' of strangers: social contempt and its theological interpretation in ancient Judaism and early Christianity / Reinhard Feldmeier -- Anti-Semitic and racist prejudices in Titus 1:10-16 / Wolfgang Stegemann

Biblical interpretation from the perspective of indigenous cultures of Latin America (Mayas, Kunas, and Quechuas) / Pablo …