Contents:
Introduction: Exploring the Intersections of Race, Gender, Status, and Ethnicity in Early Christian Studies / Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza
Part I: Race, Gender, and Ethnicity in Early Christianity: Theorizing the Field of Inquiry
Chapter 1: Be Not Afraid of the Dark: Critical Race Theory and Classical Studies / Shelley P. Haley
Chapter 2: The Knidian Aphrodite in the Roman Empire and Hiram Powers’s Greek Slave: On Ethnicity, Gender, and Desire / Laura Nasrallah
Chapter 3: “From Every Nation under Heaven”: Jewish Ethnicities in the Greco-Roman World / Cynthia M. Baker
Chapter 4: Mimicry and Colonial Differences: Gender, Ethnicity, and Empire in the Interpretation of Pauline Imitation / Joseph A. Marchal
Chapter 5: “To the Jew First and Also to the Greek”: Reading Romans as Ethnic Construction / Sze-kar Wan
Part II: Race, Gender, and Ethnicity: Shaping the Discipline of Early Christian Studies
Chapter 6: God’s Own People: Specters of Race, Ethnicity, and Gender in Early Christian Studies / Denise Kimber Buell
Chapter 7: Race, Aesthetics, and Gospel Scholarship: Embracing and Subverting the Aesthetic Ideology / Shawn Kelley
Chapter 8: race as Incarnational Theology: Affinities between German Protestantism and Racial Theory / Susannah Heschel
Chapter 9: Religion, Ethnicity, and Ethnoreligion: Trajectories of a Discourse in German-Speaking Historical Jesus Scholarship / Gabriella Gelardini
Chapter 10: “No Modern Joshua…” Nationalization, Scriptures, and Race / Vincent L. Wimbush
Chapter 11: Poetics of Minority Biblical Criticism: Identification and Theorization / Fernando F. Segovia

Includes index.