The Literary Construction of the Other in the Acts of the Apostles: Charismatics, the Jews, and Women by Smith, Mitzi J.

The Literary Construction of the Other in the Acts of the Apostles: Charismatics, the Jews, and Women (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780227680223)

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The Literary Construction of the Other in the Acts of the Apostles: Charismatics, the Jews, and Women by Smith, Mitzi J.

The Literary Construction of the Other in the Acts of the Apostles: Charismatics, the Jews, and Women

$27.00
The Literary Construction of the Other in the Acts of the Apostles: Charismatics, the Jews, and Women by Smith, Mitzi J.

The Literary Construction of the Other in the Acts of the Apostles: Charismatics, the Jews, and Women

$27.00
Format: Paperback
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Mitzi Smith engages the reader in explaining how, as in the real world, the characterization of the Others is used negatively in the biblical texts. Smith shows how the concept of difference is constructed in order to distinguish ourselves from proximateothers: indeed, the other who is most similar to us is most threatening and most problematic. The process of Othering, or Otherness, is a synthetic and political social construct that allows us to create and maintain boundaries between 'them' and 'us'. Thus, this work demonstrates how proximate characters are constructed as the Other in the Acts of the Apostles. Charismatics, Jews, and women are proximate others who are constructed as the external and internal Others.

Author: Mitzi J. Smith
ISBN-10: 0227680227
ISBN-13: 9780227680223
Publisher: James Clarke Company
Language: English
Published: 06/28/2012
Pages: 182
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.39d
By Mitzi J. Smith
By Mitzi J. Smith
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Mitzi J. Smith is Associate Professor of New Testament and Early Christian Studies at Ashland theological Seminary at Detroit. She is a contributor to True to Our Native Land (2008).

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