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...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Identifying the Dominant Narrative: Non-ethnoracial Readings of Matthew 26-27
• 3. Situating the Dominant Narrative: Deracialized Readers and Reading Locations
• 4. Constructing a Minoritized Approach: Racialized Readers and Reading Locations
• 5. Proposing an Alternative Narrative: An Ethnoracial Reading of Matthew 26-27
• 6. Conclusion.