Racializing Jesus

Racializing Jesus Race, Ideology and the Formation of Modern Biblical Scholarship Shawn KellyRoutledge, 2002ISBN 9780415283731 Softcover, 270 pp.5.54 X 8.5 X 0.59 inches | 0.74 pounds Shawn Kelley's groundbreaking study shows how the major intellectual movements of the modern world, such as Orientalism and romantic nationalism, become infused with the category of race. He then traces the processes through which racially-grounded thinking has influenced modern biblical scholarship. Dynamic and thought-provoking, the book incorporates a wide range of current debate, from critical race theory to the relationship between Martin Heidegger and National Socialism. It will give every student and scholar of biblical studies awareness of the subtle ways in which racial thinking has permeated their discipline, and encourage them to create new modes of biblical analysis.