Why This New Race: Ethnic Reasoning in Early Christianity

List of AbbreviationsPrefaceIntroduction1. "Worshippers of So-Called Gods, Jews, and Christians": Religion in Ethnoracial Discourses2. "We Were Before the Foundation of the World": Appeals to the Past in Early Christian Self-Definition3. "We, Quarried from the Bowels of Christ, Are the True Genos of Israel": Christian Claims to Peoplehood4. "A Genos Saved by Nature": Ethnic Reasoning as Intra-Christian Polemic5. "From Every Race of Humans": Ethnic Reasoning, Conversion, and Christian UniversalismEpilogueNotesBibliographyIndex of Ancient SourcesGeneral Index