In Matthew's passion narrative, the ethnoracial identity of Jesus comes into sharp focus. The repetition of the title "King of the Judeans" ( ßas e t dä ) foregrounds the politics of race and ethnicity. Despite the explicit use of terminology, previous scholarship has understood the title curiously in non-ethnoracial ways. This book takes the peculiar omission in the history of interpretation as its point of departure. It provides an expanded ethnoracial reading of the text, and poses a fundamental ideological question that interrogates the pattern in the larger context of modern biblical scholarship. Wongi Park issues a critique of the dominant narrative and presents an alternative reading of Matthew's passion narrative. He identifies a critical vocabulary and framework of analysis to decode the politics of race and ethnicity implicit in the history of interpretation. Ultimately, the book lends itself to a broader research agenda: the destabilization of the dominant narrative of early Christianity's non-ethnoracial origins.

Autorentext

Wongi Park is a Fellow at Belmont University, USA.

Inhalt

1. Introduction2.  Identifying the Dominant Narrative: Non-Ethnoracial Readings of Matthew 26-273.  Situating the Dominant Narrative: Deracialized Readers and Reading Location4. Constructing a Minoritized Approach: Racialized Readers and Reading Locations5. Proposing an Alternative Narrative: An Ethnoracial Reading of Matthew 26-276. Conclusion