Minoritized Women Reading Race and Ethnicity

This volume is an urgently needed intervention into New Testament scholarship. First, it highlights the work of women of color within New Testament Studies, despite the structural racism that has produced a guild that is by vast majority male and white. Second, it acknowledges the recent surge of scholarship on ethnicity and race in the Classics and in the study of early Christianity, and exceeds them, offering historical ideas of race or ethnicity, and also intersectional analyses that balance past texts and present realities…. These essays take seriously the experiences and critical scholarly analyses of women of color and open up new ways of understanding New Testament texts. -- Laura Nasrallah, Yale Divinity School
Wow. Six women—African American, Asian American, and Asian—collaborate to produce essays on key New Testament texts sensitive to the intersections of race/ethnicity and gender/sexuality. The work is unapologetically ideological, theoretically sophisticated, focused on the materiality of bodies, embodied voices, performance, and the relevance of both ancient and modern contexts. A milestone…. -- Shelly Matthews, Brite Divinity School

Employing disparate methodologies with great sophistication, the volume offers unique perspectives that are deeply disruptive and profoundly formative. Contributors read the texts astutely and engage issues of race and ethnicity in powerful ways. A must-read in this political context.

-- Raj Nadella, Columbia Theological Seminary