Insights from African American Interpretation

by Mitzi J. Smith, Mark Allan Powell (Editor)

Overview

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 todays 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 Theology 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:	9781506400174
Publisher:	1517 Media
Publication date:	05/01/2017
Series:	Insights , #3
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	154
Sales rank:	681,092
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

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 Literary Construction of the Other in the Acts of the Apostles (2011).

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.

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