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Record Nr.

UNINA9910644262503321

Autore

Galvan Estrada Rodolfo

Titolo

A Latino Reading of Race, Kinship, and the Empire : John’s Prologue / / by Rodolfo Galvan Estrada III

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2023

ISBN

9783031203053

9783031203046

Edizione

[1st ed. 2023.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (260 pages)

Disciplina

306.850899915

226.506

Soggetti

Theology

Bible—Study and teaching

Comparative literature

Christian Theology

Biblical Studies

Comparative Literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Chapter 1: Revisiting the Problem of the Johannine Prologue -- Chapter 2: Reading the Ancient World through Latinx Eyes -- Chapter 3: Race and Representation -- Chapter 4: The Prologue’s Racialized Reality: John 1:1-18 -- Chapter 5: The Prologue and Kinship -- Chapter 6: The Prologue and Race -- Chapter 7: The Prologue and the Roman Empire -- Chapter 8: A Racially Profiled Prologue.

Sommario/riassunto

This book provides a Latino reading of John’s prologue with special attention to how the themes of race, kinship, and the empire are part of the gospel’s racial rhetoric. By drawing from the insights of Latinx texts and theology, this book reveals how the prologue provides a lens to read the entire gospel with a keen awareness of Jesus’s engagement with people groups—from his own family to the Roman authorities. The prologue participates in the gospel’s racial rhetoric by shaping the reader’s racial imagination even before a person enters the narrative. By doing so, Jesus’s identity becomes constructed and defined through



racial rhetoric since the opening verses of John’s gospel.