In Matthew's passion narrative, the ethnoracial identity of Jesus comes into sharp focus. The repetition of the title King of the Judeans 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.

Critiques the conventional racial representations of Jesus Challenges the mainstream interpretations of Matthew's passion narrative Offers a fresh reading of Jesus' crucifixion through the lens of race/ethnicity

Autorentext
Wongi Park is a Fellow at Belmont University, USA.

Inhalt

1. Introduction.- 2. Identifying the Dominant Narrative: Non-ethnoracial Readings of Matthew 2627.- 3. Situating the Dominant Narrative: Deracialized Readers and Reading Locations.- 4. Constructing a Minoritized Approach: Racialized Readers and Reading Locations.- 5. Proposing an Alternative Narrative: An Ethnoracial Reading of Matthew 2627 .- 6. Conclusion.