A Latino Reading of Race, Kinship, and the Empire

John's Prologue
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-3-031-20307-7
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 257 Seiten, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 351 g

This book provides a Latino reading of John’s prologue with special attention to how the themes of race, kinship, and the empire are part of the gospel’s racial rhetoric. By drawing from the insights of Latinx texts and theology, this book reveals how the prologue provides a lens to read the entire gospel with a keen awareness of Jesus’s engagement with people groups—from his own family to the Roman authorities. The prologue participates in the gospel’s racial rhetoric by shaping the reader’s racial imagination even before a person enters the narrative. By doing so, Jesus’s identity becomes constructed and defined through racial rhetoric since the opening verses of John’s gospel.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Galvan Estrada III, Rodolfo

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Bibelwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christentum/Christliche Theologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1: Revisiting the Problem of the Johannine Prologue.- Chapter 2: Reading the Ancient World through Latinx Eyes.- Chapter 3: Race and Representation.- Chapter 4: The Prologue’s Racialized Reality: John 1:1-18.- Chapter 5: The Prologue and Kinship.- Chapter 6: The Prologue and Race.- Chapter 7: The Prologue and the Roman Empire.- Chapter 8: A Racially Profiled Prologue.

Über Autor(innen)

Rodolfo Galvan Estrada III is the Assistant Professor of the New Testament at Vanguard University in Costa Mesa, CA. His research focuses on race and ethnicity in the Greco-Roman world, Gospel of John, Jude, and Latino readings of the New Testament.