Gifford Rhamie: The Ethiopian Eunuch and Conceptuality in the Imperial Imagination of Biblical Studies, Kartoniert / Broschiert
The Ethiopian Eunuch and Conceptuality in the Imperial Imagination of Biblical Studies
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- Publisher:
- Chris Keith
- Publisher:
- Bloomsbury Academic, 05/2029
- Binding:
- Kartoniert / Broschiert
- Language:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9780567703712
- Weight:
- 454 g
- Format:
- 234 x 156 mm
- Thickness:
- 25 mm
- Release date:
- 24.5.2029
- Note
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Caution: Product is not in German language
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Blurb
Gifford Rhamie addresses the contentious question, "why cannot the Ethiopian eunuch in Acts 8: 26-40 be conceptualised as a Jew in the British academy?" Rhamie uses postcolonial studies and theory to examine the Ethiopian eunuch's ethnoreligious agency, finding two epistemological lenses: whiteness and 'critical conviviality'. The former is employed in the function of deconstructing, while the latter encourages opening one's conceptuality in a multidimensional way, functioning to reconstruct analyses for agency.
Turning to the early Church Fathers, Rhamie argues that the anti-Jewish discourse of the time, the Adversus Judaeos trope, functioned teleologically to shift the Ethiopian eunuch's ethnoreligious agency from an Afroasiatic Jewish to a Graeco-Gentile ideal. In more recent years, the racialised imagination of the academy further identifies the eunuch as a Graeco-Roman Gentile. His being denied a Jewish identity appears to foreclose an exploration of a dynamic agency that could open up new opportunities and possibilities of (re-)conceptualising Jewish history, the Book of Acts, and Christian origins. Rhamie asserts that 'Black lives matter' for Jewishness in the Book of Acts and for Christian origins.