Racializing Jesus: Race, Ideology and the Formation of Modern Biblical Scholarship Book

	Preface
	Acknowledgments
	List of abbreviations
	Introduction	1
1	Racialized discourse: modernity, race, and reason	14
	Current theories on race	19
2	The Hegelian synthesis: early modernity, race, and culture	33
	Hegel's narrative of world history	47
3	Jesus and the myth of the West: Tubingen and the construction of early Christianity	64
	Tubingen, Hegel, and tendency criticism	66
	The historical context	68
	The world of the New Testament	70
	Paul and the Christian principle	75
	The emerging consensus	81
4	Aesthetic fascism: Heidegger, National Socialism, and the Jews	89
	Deconstructing Heidegger	92
	Authenticity in Being and Time	96
	Authenticity, the public, and racial antiSemitism	100
	Authenticity, the Greeks, and volkisch nationalism	111
5	In the shadow of Heidegger: Bultmann, race, and the quest for Christian origins	129
	Heidegger, Bultmann, and liberal theology	131
	Bultmann reading Heidegger	137
	Bultmann and the origins of Christianity	139
	Bultmann, Heidegger, and the Holocaust	154
6	Portrait of the artist as a young messiah: Jesus comes to America	165
	The construction of American biblical scholarship	165
	Funk, Wilder, and the poetry of authenticity	172
	The ideology of parables: Funk, Crossan, and the myth of origins	190
7	Conclusion	211
	Discarded	212
	Redefined	215
	The illusion of a fresh start: deconstruction and escaping racialization	219
	Postcolonialism, race, and literature	222
	Notes	226
	Bibliography	237
	Index	251