| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 223 pages) |
| Contents |
Book Cover; Title; Contents; Abbreviations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Developing a taxonomy of ethno-political rhetorics; Interpreting ethnic and color differences in early Christian writings; Egyptians, Ethiopians, Blacks, and blackness in Greco-Roman literature; Reading ethno-political rhetorics in early Christian literature; ̃We were Ethiopians in our vices and sins̃: ethno-political rhetorics defining vices and sins; ̃Stirring up the passions̃: ethno-political rhetorics defining sexual threats; ̃Beyond the rivers of Ethiopiã: ethno-political rhetorics defining insiders and outsiders |
| Summary |
There has been growing interest in recent years in the presence and image of blacks and blackness in classical antiquity. However this pioneering and much needed work is the first to survey and theorise the black as seen by early Christian writers |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-203) and indexes |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Black people -- History -- To 1500
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Christian literature, Early.
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Black people in literature.
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RELIGION -- Christian Church -- History.
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RELIGION -- Christianity -- History.
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Black people
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Christian literature, Early
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Black people in literature
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
0585460698 |
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9780585460697 |
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0203471474 |
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9780203471470 |
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9786610318094 |
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6610318093 |
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9780415243681 |
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0415243688 |
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9780415243698 |
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0415243696 |
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