IVP Academic

Mixed Identities and the People of God

Exploring Multiethnicity in the New Testament and the Ancient World for Today

An accessible exploration of ethnicity and belonging in Scripture, connecting ancient identities with the questions facing Christian readers and communities today.

The book brings the New Testament and the ancient world into conversation with contemporary questions of multiethnicity. Its focus is the relationship between identity, Scripture, and the ways Christian communities understand belonging.

Brill

Multiethnic Identity in the New Testament

Genealogies, Myths, and the Politics of Ancestry

A scholarly study of how New Testament and Greco-Roman writers imagined peoplehood through ancestry, genealogies, and stories of descent.

The study attends to literary representations of ancestry and identity, considering genealogies and myths as ways of imagining peoplehood. New Testament and Greco-Roman literature provide the setting for these questions of descent and belonging.