Bitter the chastening rod : Africana Biblical interpretation after Stony the road we trod in the age of BLM, SayHerName, and MeToo /

Bitter the chastening rod : Africana Biblical interpretation after Stony the road we trod in the age of BLM, SayHerName, and MeToo / edited by Mitzi J. Smith, Angela N. Parker, Ericka S. Dunbar Hill. - vii, 289 pages; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"The Hill We Climb" : introduction / A Eulogy for Cain Hope Felder / Zoom-ing in on a Watershed Moment in Biblical Interpretation / God's Only Begotten Thug / Abolitionist Messiah : a Man named Jesus born of a Doulē / Reading with the Enslaved : placing human bondage at the center of the early Christian story / "I am a Human" : racializing assemblages and criminalized Egyptianness in Acts 21:31-39 / The Terror of White Hermeneutics : black and enslaved bodies interpreted in the context of whiteness / Hoodoo Blues and the Formulation of Hermeneutical Strategies for Contemporary Africana Biblical Engagement / Reflections on Teaching Biblical Interpretation through a Black Lives Matter Hermeneutic / Revisiting the Caananites and Contemporary Ites : pedagogical insights into cheering for the wrong team / Reading Romans in Greek : translating and commenting on it in Haitian Creole / Rage, Riots, and Rhetoric : Psalm 137 and African American responses to violence / Rethinking "God-breathed" in the Age of #BLM : a womanist reading of 2 Tim 3:10-17 / Leah and Dinah in the Face of Abuse : what do I tell my daughter? / Antichrist and Anti-Black : 1 John and "Black Lives Matter" / John's Apocalypse and African American Interpretation / "To Think Better Than We Have Been Trained" : thirty years later / Mitzi J. Smith, Angela N. Parker, Ericka S. Dunbar Hill -- Brian K. Blount -- William H. Myers -- Allen Dwight Callahan -- Mitzi J. Smith -- Emerson B. Powery -- Jeremy L. Williams -- Marcus W. Shields -- Hugh R. Page, Jr. -- Wil Gafney -- Theodore W. Burgh -- Ronald Charles -- Stacy Davis -- Angela N. Parker -- Kamilah Hall Sharp -- Dennis R. Edwards -- Thomas B. Slater -- Race Still Matters : mapping the afterlives of Stony the road we trod / Clarice J. Martin -- Renita J. Weems. Remembering the Past, Laboring in the Present, and Shaping a Hopeful Future -- God's Black(ened) People in the World-Thugs, Slaves, and Criminals -- Africana Hermeneutical Strategies, Pedagogy, Translation, and #BLM -- Black Rage and Protest in Times of #BlackLivesMatter and #MeToo -- Responses --

"In this book, Africana biblical scholars argue that race, class, gender, and sexuality still matter for doing biblical interpretation/translation, centering the socio-political and cultural contexts of Africana peoples negotiating life, death, and hope in the age of #BLM, #SayHerName, #MeToo, and a global pandemic"--

9781978712003 1978712006

2021055287


Bible--Black interpretations.
Bible--Interprétations noires.
Bible.


Race relations--Religious aspects.
Black interpretations of sacred works.

BS511.3 / .B627 2022

220.6

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