{"product_id":"the-ethiopian-eunuch-and-conceptuality-gifford-rhamie-9780567703675","title":"The Ethiopian Eunuch and Conceptuality in the Imperial Imagination of Biblical Studies","description":"\u003cp\u003eGifford Rhamie addresses the contentious question, \"why cannot the Ethiopian eunuch in Acts 8:26-40 be conceptualised as a Jew in the British academy?\" Rhamie uses postcolonial studies and theory to examine the Ethiopian eunuch's ethnoreligious agency, finding two epistemological lenses: whiteness and 'critical conviviality'. The former is employed in the function of deconstructing, while the latter encourages opening one's conceptuality in a multidimensional way, functioning to reconstruct analyses for agency. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTurning to the early Church Fathers, Rhamie argues that the anti-Jewish discourse of the time, the \u003ci\u003eAdversus Judaeos\u003c\/i\u003e trope, functioned teleologically to shift the Ethiopian eunuch's ethnoreligious agency from an Afroasiatic Jewish to a Graeco-Gentile ideal. In more recent years, the racialised imagination of the academy further identifies the eunuch as a Graeco-Roman Gentile. His being denied a Jewish identity appears to foreclose an exploration of a dynamic agency that could open up new opportunities and possibilities of (re-)conceptualising Jewish history, the Book of Acts, and Christian origins. Rhamie asserts that 'Black lives matter' for Jewishness in the Book of Acts and for Christian origins.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Gifford Rhamie\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0567703673\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780567703675\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e T\u0026amp;T Clark\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/06\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 1.00d","brand":"Gifford Rhamie","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44076643614975,"sku":"9780567703675","price":115.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_9d805206-85ef-4288-83d5-0a029423cc2f.jpg?v=1685466068","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-ethiopian-eunuch-and-conceptuality-gifford-rhamie-9780567703675","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}