The Politics of Race and Ethnicity in Matthew's Passion Narrative

• Main Author: Park, Wongi (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Bible-Theology.; Religion-History.; Religion and sociology.; Theology.; Critical theory.; Biblical Studies.; History of Religion.; Social Aspects of Religion.; Christian Theology.; Critical Theory.

In Matthew's passion narrative, the ethnoracial identity of Jesus comes into sharp focus. The repetition of the title "King of the Judeans" (ὁ βασιλεὺς τῶν Ἰουδαίων) foregrounds the politics of race and ethnicity. Despite the explicit use of terminology, previous scholarship has...