Description: Sechrest describes Pauline Christianity as a nascent ancient racial group, drawing on a Jewish understanding of race in Second Temple Judaism.
Brief description: Love Sechrest, Ph.D. is Assistant Professor of New Testament at Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, CA, USA
Review Quotes:
"This book is to be commended on many fronts, most notably for its exhaustive survey of ancient texts and its adroit examination of Galatians in the light of a Christian dialectic of race and ethnicity...this work represents a fresh contribution to the field of Pauline study, and will also provide valuable information to those interested in Paul's cultural context." --Expository Times
"Sechrest's book raises important questions of race and religion in the ancient Greek world, contributing to theological and social debates relevant within and beyond the academy." --Journal for the Study of The New Testament, Volume 33 Number 5