"This analysis demonstrates the sophisticated ways in which Christian writers attempted to shape the self-understandings of their communities through the use of ethnic and color-symbolic language; it also explores how ethnic and color difference came to symbolize certain theolog…
Looking at the neglexted issue of race and ethnicity brings new perspectives to the study of the ancient world; now, Gary L. Byron's exciting work is the first to classify and offer theoretical insights about the symbolic usages of Egyptians, Ethiopians and Blacks in Christian a…
There has been growing interest in recent years in the presence and image of blacks and blackness in classical antiquity. However this pioneering and much needed work is the first to survey and theorise the black as seen by early Christian writers.