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Symbolic Blackness and Ethnic Difference in Early Christian Literature: BLACKENED BY THEIR SINS: Early Christian Ethno-Political Rhetorics about Egyptians, Ethiopians, Blacks and Blackness book cover

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Symbolic Blackness and Ethnic Difference in Early Christian Literature BLACKENED BY THEIR SINS: Early Christian Ethno-Political Rhetorics about Egyptians, Ethiopians, Blacks and Blackness

By Gay L Byron Copyright 2002
240 Pages
by Routledge

240 Pages
by Routledge

240 Pages
by Routledge
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How were early Christians influenced by contemporary assumptions about ethnic and colour differences? Why were early Christian writers so attracted to the subject of Blacks, Egyptians, and Ethiopians? Looking at the neglected issue of race brings valuable new perspectives to the study of the ancient world; now Gay Byron's exciting work is the first to survey and theorise Blacks, Egyptians and... Read more
Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Introduction Part I: Developing a Taxonomy of Ethno-Political Rhetorics 1. Interpreting Ethnic and Color Differences in Early Christian Writings 2. Egyptians, Ethiopians, Blacks and Blackness in Greco-Roman Literature Part II: Reading Ethno-Political Rhetorics in Early Christian Literature 3. 'We Were Ethiopians in our Vices and Sins': Etho-Political Rhetorics Defining Vices and Sins 4. 'Stirring up the Passions': Ethno-Political Rhetorics Defining Sexual Threats 5. 'Beyond the Rivers of Ethiopia': Ethno-Political Rhetorics Defining Insiders and Outsiders Conclusion Notes Bibliography Indexes

Biography

Gay L. Byron

'The best account to date of a formative phase of British economics.' - TLS

'Kadish has an encyclopaedic knowledge of his subject ... a very fine new book.' - THES

'Her study deserves warm commendation for its thoroughness, including the use of Greek and Latin texts, usually also given in English.' - Church Times

'[Byron's] book ... is an original and pioneering piece of scholarship ... [it] is a vital contribution to Black theology, New Testament studies/hermenutics and early Christian history from a Black perspective ... this book will be very valuable to teachers, scholars and researchers.' - Black Theology: An International Journal

'In this short but important book, Gay Byron offers a complex and insightful analysis of ethnic and colour symbolism in early Christianity. This study provides a welcome challenge to scholarship that claims that early Christianity was colour-blind and all-inclusive or that ignores the polemical use of colour-coded terminology altogether.' - Journal of Roman Studies

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