Contents

List of Abbreviations

Preface

Introduction

1. “Worshippers of So-Called Gods, Jews, and Christians”: Religion in Ethnoracial Discourses

2. “We Were Before the Foundation of the World”: Appeals to the Past in Early Christian Self-Definition

3. “We, Quarried from the Bowels of Christ, Are the True Genos of Israel”: Christian Claims to Peoplehood

4. “A Genos Saved by Nature”: Ethnic Reasoning as Intra-Christian Polemic

5. “From Every Race of Humans”: Ethnic Reasoning, Conversion, and Christian Universalism

Epilogue

Notes

Bibliography

Index of Ancient Sources

General Index