Ethnicity – Bible

[31 Dec 2015]

For fuller bibliographies on the Ethnicity in the Bible, see James C. Miller, “Ethnicity in the Hebrew Bible: Problems and Prospects” CBR 6.2 2008.

And the newer works by Eric Barreto (2010), Aaron Kuecker (2011), and Coleman A. Baker (2011) listed below.

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Baker, Coleman A. Identity, Memory, and Narrative: Peter, Paul, and Recategorization in Acts and Early Christianity. Eugene, Ore.: Pickwick, 2011.

Baker, Cynthia M. “‘From Every Nation under Heaven’: Jewish Ethnicities in the Greco-Roman World.” Pages 79–99 in Prejudice and Christian Beginnings: Investigating Race, Gender, and Ethnicity in Early Christianity. Edited by Laura Nasrallah and Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza. Minneapolis: Fortress, 2010.

Barclay, John M G. 1996. “‘Neither Jew Nor Greek’: Multiculturalism and the New Perspective on Paul.” In Ethnicity and the Bible, edited by Mark G. Brett, 197-214. BibIntSer 19. Leiden: Brill.

Barreto, Eric D. Ethnic Negotiations: The Function of Race and Ethnicity in Acts 16. WUNT 294. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2010.

Ben Zvi, Ehud. “Inclusion in and Exclusion from Israel as Conveyed by the Use of the Term ‘Israel’ in Post-Monarchic Biblical Texts.” Pages 95-149 in The Pitcher Is Broken: Memorial Essays for Gösta W. Ahlström. Edited by Steven W. Holloway and Lowell K. Handy. Journal for the Study of the Old Testament Supplement Series 190. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1995.

Berquist, Jon L. “Constructions of Identity in Postcolonial Yehud.” Pages 53-66 in Judah and the Judeans in the Persian Period. Edited by Oded Lipschits and Manfred Oeming. Winona Lake, Ind: Eisenbrauns, 2006.

Brett, Mark G., ed. Ethnicity and the Bible. Leiden: Brill Academic, 1996.

Brett, Mark G. “Israel’s Indigenous Origins: Cultural Hybridity and the Formation of Israelite Ethnicity.” Biblical Interpretation 11, no. 3/4 (2003): 400-412.

Campbell, William S. Paul and the Creation of Christian Identity. Library of New Testament Studies 322. London: T&T Clark, 2006.

Cohen, Shaye J. D. The Beginnings of Jewishness: Boundaries, Varieties, Uncertainties. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999.

Cromhout, Markus.  Jesus and Identity: Reconstructing Judean Ethnicity in Q. Matrix: The Bible in Mediterranean Context. Eugene: Cascade. 2007.

Cromhout, Markus. Religion and covenantal praxis in first century Judeanism. HTS 63.1 (2007): 171-205.

Cromhout, Markus.  “Paul’s ‘former conduct in the Judean way of life’ (Gal 1:13) … or not?” HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies 65(1) 2009. Abstract PDF

Cromhout, Markus. Walking in Their Sandals. A Guide to First-Century Israelite Ethnic Identity. Eugene, OR: Cascade. 2010.

[For other relevant articles by Cromhout see his publications page: http://markuscromhout.wordpress.com/publications/]

Crüsemann, Frank. “Human Solidarity and Ethnic Identity: Israel’s Self-Definition in the Genealogical System of Genesis.” Pages 57-76 in Ethnicity and the Bible. Edited by Mark G. Brett. Leiden: Brill Academic, 1996.

Duling, Dennis C. “Whatever Gain I Had . . .”: Ethnicity and Paul’s Self-Identification in Philippians 3:5-6.” Pages 222-241 in Fabrics of Discourse: Essays in Honor of Vernon K. Robbins. Edited by David B. Gowler, L. Gregory Bloomquist, and Duane F. Watson. London: Trinity International, 2003. Reprinted:  HTS 64 (2008):799-818. Abstract PDF

Duling, Dennis C.  “Ethnicity, Ethnocentrism, and the Matthean ethnos.” BTB 35 (2005) :125–43.

Duling, Dennis C. “Corinthians 11:22: Historical context, rhetoric, and ethnicity.” HTS 64 (2008):819-43. Abstract PDF

Edelman, Diana. “Ethnicity in Early Israel.” Pages 26-55 in Ethnicity and the Bible. Edited by Mark G. Brett. Leiden: Brill Academic, 2002.

Esler, Philip F. Galatians. London; New York: Routledge. 1998

Esler, Philip F. Conflict and Identity in Romans: The Social Setting of Paul’s Letter. Minneapolis: Fortress, 2003.

Esler, Philip F. “Ancient Oleiculture and Ethnic Differentiation: The Meaning of the Olive-Tree Image in Romans 11.” JSNT 26 (2003):103-124.

Esler, Philip F. “Social identity, the Virtues, and the Good Life: A new approach to Romans 12:1-15:13.” BTB (2003) 33:51-63.

Esler, Philip F. “Ezra-Nehemiah as a Narrative of (Re-Invented) Israelite Identity.” Biblical Interpretation 11, no. 3-4 (2003): 413-426.

Esler, Philip F. 2006. “Paul’s Contestation of Israel’s (Ethnic) Memory of Abraham in Galatians 3.” BTB 36 (2006):23-33.

Glover, N. “Your People, My People: An Exploration of Ethnicity in Ruth.” JSOT 33 (2009): 293–313.

Hall, Jonathan. Ethnic Identity in Greek Antiquity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997.

Hays, J. Daniel. From Every People and Nation: A Biblical Theology of Race. New Studies in Biblical Theology. Downers Grove: InterVarsity, 2003.

Hellerman, Joseph H. Jesus and the People of God: Reconfiguring Ethnic Identity. New Testament monographs 21. Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2007.

Hodge, Caroline Johnson. “Olive Trees and Ethnicities. Judeans and Gentiles in Rom. 11.17–24.” Pages 77–89 in Christians as a Religious Minority in a Multicultural City: Modes of Interaction and Identity Formation in Early Imperial Rome. Edited by Jürgen Zangenberg and Michael Labahn. JSNTSup 243. London: T&T Clark, 2004.

Holloway, Steven W., and Lowell K. Handy eds. The Pitcher Is Broken: Memorial Essays for Gösta W. Ahlström. Journal for the Study of the Old Testament Supplement Series 190. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1995.

Horrell, David G. “‘Race’, ‘Nation’, ‘People’: Ethnic Identity-Construction in 1 Peter 2.9.” NTS 58, no. 1 (2011): 123–43.

Hostetter, Edwin C. Nations Mightier and More Numerous: The Biblical View of Palestine’s Pre-Israelite Peoples. BIBAL Dissertation Series 3. N. Richland Hills, Tex: BIBAL, 1995.

Killebrew, Ann E. Biblical Peoples and Ethnicity: An Archaeological Study of Egyptians, Canaanites, Philistines, and Early Israel 1300-1100 B.C.E. Archaeology and Biblical Studies 9. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2005.

Kratz, Reinhard G. “Israel in the Book of Isaiah.” Journal for the Study of the Old Testament 31 (2006): 103-128.

Kreitzer, Mark R. The Concept of Ethnicity in the Bible: A Theological Analysis. Lewiston, NY: The Edwin Mellen Press. 2009.

Kuecker, Aaron. The Spirit and the “Other”: Social Identity, Ethnicity and Intergroup Reconciliation in Luke-Acts. LNTS 444. London: T&T Clark, 2011.

Mojola, Aloo Osotsi. “The ‘Tribes’ of Israel? A Bible Translator’s Dilemma.” Journal for the Study of the Old Testament 81 (1998): 15-29.

Mullen, Theodore E. Jr. Ethnic Myths and Pentateuchal Foundations: A New Approach to the Formation of the Pentateuch. SBL Semeia Studies. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1997.

Nasrallah, Laura, and Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza, eds. Prejudice and Christian Beginnings: Investigating Race, Gender, and Ethnicity in Early Christianity. Minneapolis: Fortress, 2010.

Ramírez Kidd, José E. Alterity and Identity in Israel: The gr in the Old Testament. Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft 283. Berlin: de Gruyter, 1999.

Schnabel, Eckhard J. “Israel, the People of God, and the Nations.” Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society 45, no. 1 (2002): 35-57.

Scobie, C. H. H. “Israel and the Nations: An Essay in Biblical Theology.” Tyndale Bulletin 43 (1992): 283-305.

Sheriffs, Deryck C.T. “‘A Tale of Two Cities’ – Nationalism in Zion and Babylon.” Tyndale Bulletin 39 (1988): 19-57.

Sim, David C. “Christianity and Ethnicity in the Gospel of Matthew.” Pages 171-195 in Ethnicity and the Bible. Edited by Mark G. Brett. Leiden: Brill Academic, 2002.

Southwood, Katherine E. “‘And They Could Not Understand Jewish Speech’: Language, Ethnicity, and Nehemiah’s Intermarriage Crisis.” JTS 62, no. 1 (2011): 1–19.

Sparks, Kenton L. Ethnicity and Identity in Ancient Israel. Winona Lake, Ind: Eisenbrauns, 1998.

Stegemann, Wolfgang. “The Emergence of God’s New People: The Beginnings of Christianity Reconsidered.” HTS 62 (2006):23–40.

Thatcher, Tom. The Riddles of Jesus in John: A Study in Tradition and Folklore. Society of Biblical Literature Monograph Series 53. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2000.

Volf, Miroslav. Exclusion and Embrace: A Theological Exploration of Identity, Otherness, and Reconciliation. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1996.

Watson, Francis. Paul, Judaism and the Gentiles: A Sociological Approach. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986.

Weems, Renita J. “The Hebrew Women Are Not Like the Egyptian Women: The Ideology of Race, Gender and Sexual Reproduction in Exodus 1.” Semia 59 (1992): 25-34.

Cromhout, Markus.