Ethnicity and the Bible

includes index and biblioraphy

PART I: ETHNICITY IN THE BIBLE Hebrew Bible DIANA EDELMAN Ethnicity and Early Israel .... 25 FRANK CRUSEMANN Human Solidarity and Ethnic Identity: Israel`s Self-definition in the Genealogical System of Genesis .... 57 ROLF RENDTORFF The Ger in the Priestly Laws of the Pentateuch .... 77 JONATHAN E. DYGK The Ideology of Identity in Chronicles .... 89 DANIEL L. SMITH-CHRISTOPHER Between Ezra and Isaiah: Exclusion, Transformation and Inclusion of the "Foreigner" in Post-exilic Biblical Theology .... 117 JON D. LEVENSON The Universal Horizon of Biblical Particularism .... 143 New Testament DAVID SIM Christianity and Ethnicity in the Gospel of Matthew .... 171 JOHN M.G. BARCLAY `Neither Jew nor Greek`: Multiculturalism and the New Perspective on Paul 197 PHILIP F. ESLER Group Boundaries and Intergroup Conflict in Galatians:A New Reading of Gal. 5:13-6:10 .... 215 REINHARD FELDMEIER The `Nation` of Strangers: Social Contempt and its Theological Interpretation in Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity ..... 241 WOLFGANG STEGEMANN Anti-Semitic and Racist Prejudices in Titus 1:10-16 ... 271 PART II: CULTURE AND INTERPRETATION Indigenous Peoples PABLO RICHARD Biblical Interpretation from the Perspective of Indigenous Cultures of Latin America (Mayas, Kunas,and Quechuas) .... 297 SUSAN HAWLEY Does God Speak Miskitu? The Bible and Ethnic Identity among the Miskitu of Nicaragua ..... 315 THANZAUVA AND R.L. HNUNI Ethnicity, Identity and Hermeneutics: An Indian Tribal Perspective ..... 343 LYNNE HUME The Rainbow Serpent, the Cross, and the Fax Machine: Australian Aboriginal Responses to the Bible .... 359 The Politics of Interpretation DAVID JOBLING AND CATHERINE ROSE Reading as a Philistine: The Ancient and Modern History of a Cultural Slur 381 R.S. SUGIRTHARAJAH Orientalism, Ethnonationalism and Transnationalism:Shifting Identities and Biblical Interpretation .... 419 JOHN RICHES Cultural Bias in European and North American Biblical Scholarship ...... 431 PIETER F. CRAFFERT On New Testament Interpretation and Ethnocentrism .... 449 FERNANDO F. SEGOVIA Racial and Ethnic Minorities in Biblical Studies .... 469