A Latino Reading of Race, Kinship, and the Empire : John's Prologue

Table of Contents 

1.      Revisiting the Problem of the Johannine Prologue [10,000 words]

1.1  Introduction

1.2  The Prologue Among Contemporary Interpreters

1.2.1        Elizabeth Harris: Prologue and Gospel

1.2.2        Craig Evans: Word and Glory

1.2.3        Alison Jasper: The Shining Garment of the Text

1.2.4        Daniel Boyarin: Border Lines: The Partition of Judaeo-Christianity

1.2.5        Other Studies on the Prologue

1.3  Guiding Questions and Focus

1.4  Defining Race and Ethnicity

1.5  Other Relevant Aspects in John

1.6  Where We Go from Here?

 

2.      Reading the Ancient World through Latinx Eyes [8,500 words]

2.1  Introduction

2.2  Latinx, Latin American, Hispanic, and the Chicano/a/x

2.3  Latin American Liberation Theology (LALT) and its Influence on Latinx Hermeneutics

2.3.1        Gustavo Gutierrez

2.3.2        J. Severino Croatto

2.3.3        Juan Luis Segundo

2.3.4        LALT and the Impact on Latinx Hermeneutics

2.4  Latinx Hermeneutics

2.4.1        Fernando Segovia (Biblical Studies)

2.4.2        Justo Gonzalez (Historian)

2.4.3        Ada Maria Isasi Diaz (Mujerista)

2.4.4        Latinx Hermeneutics Defined

2.5  Reading the Ancient World through My Latino Eyes   

 

3.      Race and Representation [8,500 words]

3.1  Introduction

3.2  Edward Said's Ethnoracial Representation

3.3  Representations in Greco-Roman Literature

3.3.1        Persians through Greek and Roman Eyes

3.3.2        Egyptians through Greek and Roman Eyes

3.3.3        Germans through Roman Eyes

3.4  Implications of Racial Representation

3.5  Conclusion





4.      The Prologue's Racialized Reality: John 1:1-18 [9,500]

4.1  Introduction

4.2  Purpose of the Prologue

4.3  John 1:4-5: Darkness as an Agent of the Empire

4.4  John 1:9-10: World as a De-Ethnicized Representation

4.5  John 1:11: Kinship and Racial Rejection

4.6  John 1:12-13: Born of God as Kinship Language

4.7  John 1:6-8, 15-18: Jewish Representation

4.8  The Prologue's Racialized Reality

4.8.1        Racial Conflict and Rejection

4.8.2        Kinship Identity

4.8.3        Racial Representation and Imperial Agendas

4.9  Conclusion

 5.      The Prologue and Kinship [10,500 words]

5.1  Introduction

5.2  Family and Kinship in the Prologue

5.3  Kinship in Antiquity

5.4  The Family of Jesus in John: The De/Construction of Kinship

5.4.1        The Mother of Jesus (John 2:1-12; 6:42; 19:25-27)

5.4.2        The Brothers of Jesus (John 2:12; 7:1-10)

5.4.3    &