[PDF] Insights From African American Interpretation eBook

Author : Mitzi J. Smith
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 37,87 MB
Release : 2017-05-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1506401139

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Each volume in the Insights series discusses discoveries and insights gained into biblical texts from a particular approach or perspective in current scholarship. Accessible and appealing to today’s students, each Insight volume discusses how this method, approach, or strategy was first developed and how its application has changed over time; what current questions arise from its use; what enduring insights it has produced; and what questions remain for future scholarship. Mitzi J. Smith describes the distinctive African American experience of Scripture, from slavery to Black Liberation and beyond, and the unique angles of perception that an intentional African American interpretation brings to the text for a contemporary generation of scholars. Smith shows how questions of race,ethnicity, and the dynamics of “othering” have been developed in African American biblical scholarship, resulting in new reading of particular texts. Further, Smith describes challenges that scholarship raises for the future of biblical interpretation generally.

Author : James Bailey
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 31,40 MB
Release : 2017-04-25
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ISBN : 9781548541811

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Each volume in the Insights series discusses discoveries and insights gained into biblical texts from a particular approach or perspective in current scholarship. Accessible and appealing to today's students, each Insight volume discusses how this method, approach, or strategy was first developed and how its application has changed over time; what current questions arise from its use; what enduring insights it has produced; and what questions remain for future scholarship. James Bailey describes the distinctive African American experience of Scripture, from slavery to Black Liberation and beyond, and the unique angles of perception that an intentional African American interpretation brings to the text for a contemporary generation of scholars. Smith shows how questions of race, ethnicity, and the dynamics of "othering" have been developed in African American biblical scholarship, resulting in new reading of particular texts. Further, Smith describes challenges that scholarship raises for the future of biblical interpretation generally.

Author : Esau McCaulley
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 46,50 MB
Release : 2020-09-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0830854878

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Reading Scripture from the perspective of Black church tradition can help us connect with a rich faith history and address the urgent issues of our times. Demonstrating an ongoing conversation between the collective Black experience and the Bible, New Testament scholar Esau McCaulley shares a personal and scholarly testament to the power and hope of Black biblical interpretation.

Author : Cain Hope Felder
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 35,62 MB
Release : 2021-11-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1506472052

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The publication of Stony the Road We Trod thirty years ago marked the emergence of a critical mass of Black biblical scholars--as well as a distinct set of hermeneutical concerns. Combining sophisticated exegesis with special sensitivity to issues of race, class, and gender, the authors of this scholarly collection examine the nettling questions of biblical authority, Black and African people in biblical narratives, and the liberating aspects of Scripture. The original volume reshaped and redefined the questions, concerns, and scholarship that determine how the Bible is appropriated by the church, the academy, and the larger society today. To the original eleven essays this expanded edition adds a new introduction by Brian K. Blount and three new chapters by Kimberly D. Russaw, Shively T. J. Smith, and Jennifer T. Kaalund. Not only does Blount's new introduction access the impact of the first edition, but the new contributions extend the implications of Cain Hope Felder's vision for the book.

Author : Mitzi J. Smith
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 32,82 MB
Release : 2022-02-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1978712014

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Bitter the Chastening Rod follows in the footsteps of the first collection of African American biblical interpretation, Stony the Road We Trod (1991). Nineteen Africana biblical scholars contribute cutting-edge essays reading Jesus, criminalization, the enslaved, and whitened interpretations of the enslaved. They present pedagogical strategies for teaching, hermeneutics, and bible translation that center Black Lives Matter and black culture. Biblical narratives, news media, and personal stories intertwine in critical discussions of black rage, protest, anti-blackness, and mothering in the context of black precarity.

Author : Brian K. Blount
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 1442 pages
File Size : 11,93 MB
Release : 2024-10-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1506483011

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True to Our Native Land is a pioneering commentary on the New Testament that sets biblical interpretation firmly in the context of African American experience and concern. In this second edition, the scholarship is cutting-edge, updated, and expanded to be in tune with African American culture, education, and churches. The book calls into question many canons of traditional biblical research and highlights the role of the Bible in African American history, accenting themes of ethnicity, class, slavery, and African heritage as these play a role in Christian Scripture and the Christian odyssey of an emancipated people.

Author : Lisa M. Bowens
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 38,6 MB
Release : 2020-10-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1467459348

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The letters of Paul—especially the verse in Ephesians directing slaves to obey their masters—played an enormous role in promoting slavery and justifying it as a Christian practice. Yet despite this reality African Americans throughout history still utilized Paul extensively in their own work to protest and resist oppression, responding to his theology and teachings in numerous—often starkly divergent and liberative—ways. In the first book of its kind, Lisa Bowens takes a historical, theological, and biblical approach to explore interpretations of Paul within African American communities over the past few centuries. She surveys a wealth of primary sources from the early 1700s to the mid-twentieth century, including sermons, conversion stories, slave petitions, and autobiographies of ex-slaves, many of which introduce readers to previously unknown names in the history of New Testament interpretation. Along with their hermeneutical value, these texts also provide fresh documentation of Black religious life through wide swaths of American history. African American Readings of Paul promises to change the landscape of Pauline studies and fill an important gap in the rising field of reception history.

Author : Mitzi J. Smith
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 30,93 MB
Release : 2018-01-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1498288871

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Womanist Sass and Talk Back is a contextual resistance text for readers interested in social (in)justice. Smith raises our consciousness about pressing contemporary social (in)justice issues that impact communities of color and the larger society. Systemic or structural oppression and injustices, police profiling and brutality, oppressive pedagogy, and gendered violence are placed in dialogue with sacred (con)texts. This book provides fresh intersectional readings of sacred (con)texts that are accessible to both scholars and nonscholars. Womanist Sass and Talk Back is for readers interested in critical interpretations of sacred (con)texts (ancient and contemporary) and in propagating the justice and love of God while engaging those (con)texts.

Author : Carl F. Ellis
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 41,89 MB
Release : 2020-06-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0830843752

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In this historical and cultural study, Carl Ellis offers an in-depth assessment of the state of African American freedom and dignity. Tracing the growth of Black consciousness from the days of slavery to the 1990s, Ellis examines Black culture and shows how God is revitalizing the African American church and expanding its cultural range.

Author : Mwalimu Afram
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 77 pages
File Size : 17,85 MB
Release : 2012-07-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1477126570

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LIFE ON THE SURFACE IS A COLLECTION OF ORIGINAL THOUGHTS AND INSIGHTS OF AN AFRICAN-AMERICAN ON BLACK AND WHITE RACE RELATIONS IN A UNIVERSAL SPIRITUAL-COSMIC CONTEXT. IT IS BUILT AROUND TWO MAIN THEMES: THE INNER MAN OF THE HEART AND THE INNER MEANING OF THE COLOR BLACK AS IT RELATES TO PEOPLE OF AFRICAN ANCESTRY. THE BOOK IS AN EFFORT TO STIMULATE AND FEED THE SPIRITUAL INTEREST OF DISSATISFIED READERS WHO ARE SEARCHING FOR A NEW LEVEL OF LIBERATION FROM THE MATERIAL AND RACIAL CONSTRAINTS OF LIFE IN A VALUES CONFLICTED WORLD, READERS FOR WHOM TRADITIONAL TEACHINGS NO LONGER SEEM TO WORK. IT IS NOT OFFERED AS A FORMULA FOR SUCCESS BUT AS A POTENTIALLY CREATIVE TAKE OFF POINT FOR ANY ONE LOOKING FOR A REASONABLE WAY OUT AND UP THAT MAKES SENSE FOR THEM MATERIALLY, MENTALLY, EMOTIONALLY, AND SPIRITUALLY, ANY ONE WHO RECOGNIZES THAT LIFE IN THE FINAL ANALYSIS IS WHAT WE MAKE IT