Insights from African American Interpretation

by Mitzi J. Smith, Mark Allen Powell Powell

Overview

p>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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781506401133
Publisher:	Augsburg Fortress, Publishers
Publication date:	05/01/2017
Series:	Insights , #3
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	114
File size:	543 KB
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Mitzi J. Smith is professor of New Testament at Ashland Theological Seminary, the author of Womanist Sass and Back Talk: Social (In)Justice, Intersectionality, and Biblical Interpretation (2017), I Found God in Me. A Womanist Biblical Hermeneutics Reader, and coeditor of Teaching All Nations: Interrogating the Matthean Great Commission.







Mark Allan Powell taught New Testament at Trinity Lutheran Seminary for 32 years. He is author of 40 books on the Bible and editor of the Harper-Collins Bible Dictionary.
Mitzi J. Smith is associate professor of New Testament and early Christian studies at Ashland Theological Seminary, Detroit. She has contributed to The Women’s Bible Commentary, Onesimus Our Brother (Fortress Press, 2012), and True to Our Native Land (Fortress Press, 2007), and written The Construction of the Other in Acts of the Apostles.

Jayachitra Lalitha is associate professor of New Testament, dean of women’s studies and co-ordinator of Church Women Centre of Tamilnadu Theological Seminary, Madurai, India.

Table of Contents

Series Foreword vii

1 Introducing African American Interpretation 1

2 Twentieth-Century Foundations 23

3 African American Biblical Interpretation in the Early Twenty-First Century 49

4 Slavery, Torture, Systemic Oppression, and Kingdom Rhetoric: An African American Reading of Matthew 25:1-13 77

5 Dis-membering, Sexual Violence, and Confinement: A Womanist Intersectional Reading of the Story of the Levite's Wife (Judges 19) 99

Bibliography 123

Index 137