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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.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Lanham : Lexington Books/Fortress Academic, [2022]Description: vii, 289 pages; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781978712003
  • 1978712006
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Online version:: Bitter the chastening rodDDC classification:
  • 220.6 23/eng/20220107
LOC classification:
  • BS511.3 .B627 2022
Contents:
Remembering the Past, Laboring in the Present, and Shaping a Hopeful Future -- "The Hill We Climb" : introduction / Mitzi J. Smith, Angela N. Parker, Ericka S. Dunbar Hill -- A Eulogy for Cain Hope Felder / Brian K. Blount -- Zoom-ing in on a Watershed Moment in Biblical Interpretation / William H. Myers -- God's Black(ened) People in the World-Thugs, Slaves, and Criminals -- God's Only Begotten Thug / Allen Dwight Callahan -- Abolitionist Messiah : a Man named Jesus born of a Doulē / Mitzi J. Smith -- Reading with the Enslaved : placing human bondage at the center of the early Christian story / Emerson B. Powery -- "I am a Human" : racializing assemblages and criminalized Egyptianness in Acts 21:31-39 / Jeremy L. Williams -- The Terror of White Hermeneutics : black and enslaved bodies interpreted in the context of whiteness / Marcus W. Shields -- Africana Hermeneutical Strategies, Pedagogy, Translation, and #BLM -- Hoodoo Blues and the Formulation of Hermeneutical Strategies for Contemporary Africana Biblical Engagement / Hugh R. Page, Jr. -- Reflections on Teaching Biblical Interpretation through a Black Lives Matter Hermeneutic / Wil Gafney -- Revisiting the Caananites and Contemporary Ites : pedagogical insights into cheering for the wrong team / Theodore W. Burgh -- Reading Romans in Greek : translating and commenting on it in Haitian Creole / Ronald Charles -- Black Rage and Protest in Times of #BlackLivesMatter and #MeToo -- Rage, Riots, and Rhetoric : Psalm 137 and African American responses to violence / Stacy Davis -- Rethinking "God-breathed" in the Age of #BLM : a womanist reading of 2 Tim 3:10-17 / Angela N. Parker -- Leah and Dinah in the Face of Abuse : what do I tell my daughter? / Kamilah Hall Sharp -- Antichrist and Anti-Black : 1 John and "Black Lives Matter" / Dennis R. Edwards -- Responses -- John's Apocalypse and African American Interpretation / Thomas B. Slater -- Race Still Matters : mapping the afterlives of Stony the road we trod / Clarice J. Martin -- "To Think Better Than We Have Been Trained" : thirty years later / Renita J. Weems.
Summary: "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"-- Provided by publisher.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Status Date due Barcode
Print book for loan Krauth Memorial Branch Philadelphia General Collection BS511.3 .B627 2022 Available 31794003191930
Print book for loan Lineberger Memorial Library Southern Circulating Collection (Main & Upper Levels) BS511.3 .B627 2022 Available 35898001756929

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

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