Resumen de Rethinking Early Christian Identity: Affect, Violence, and Belonging

J.A. Glancy (res.)

• Rather, she contends, the so-called Christian texts on which she focuses are haunted by diasporic trauma: "If a text shows interest in the temple, priesthood, sabbath, Israelite prophetic history, Judea, Genesis stories, or any number of other elements of Israelite tradition . . . , that to me suggests a participation in Israelite diasporic culture" (14). Kotrosits's argument is deliberately affective, steeped in the affects haunting the texts she discusses, attentive to ways that affects of contemporary readers inform the readings they produce, theoretically reliant (not surprisingly) on the growing body of affect-oriented criticism. [...]Kotrosits argues, scholars fail to do justice to the reality that belonging is messy, the reality that there are not "ready-made Christians, understanding themselves as such, hiding out everywhere around the Mediterranean" (60).