The Politics of Race and Ethnicity in Matthew's Passion Narrative
In Matthew’s passion narrative, the ethnoracial identity of Jesus comes into sharp focus. The repetition of the title “King of the Judeans” (ὁ βασιλεὺς τῶν Ἰουδαίων) foregrounds the politics of race and ethnicity. Despite the explicit use of terminology,
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The Politics of Race and Ethnicity in Matthew’s Passion Narrative
Wongi Park
The Politics of Race and Ethnicity in Matthew’s Passion Narrative
Wongi Park Belmont University Nashville, TN, USA
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People have been responding to the existence of racism for 300 years, attacking its every overt daily expression. Yet after 300 years, it remains, changing form over time, in response to political conditions, while producing more damage. Whenever we have gotten strong enough to interfere with its operations (as the civil rights movement did), it comes back wearing different language, speaking an up-to-date lingo, while creating more of the “same old” effects…These effects, the racial hierarchies and segregations that get taken for granted, are too dire for us to simply watch them occur again and again, responding after the damage is done. Their resurgence, their recurrence, their longevity in the face of centuries of opposition suggest that their source lies deeper in this culture than we had imagined. Something keeps rebuilding that machine, renovating it, something beyond the nefarious individual prejudices and tainted desires by which racism manifests itself. —Steve Martinot, The Machinery of Whiteness
Acknowledgments
This book began life as a Master of Sacred Theology thesis completed at Yale Divinity School and a PhD
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