Bitter the Chastening Rod - Africana Biblical Interpretation After Stony Road We Trod in Age of

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.

List of contents

Part I. Remembering the Past, Laboring in the Present, and Shaping a Hopeful Future

1. "The Hill We Climb": Introduction ?? Mitzi J. Smith, Angela N. Parker and Ericka Dunbar Hill
2. A Eulogy for Cain Hope Felder ?? Brian K. Blount
3. Zoom-ing in on a Watershed Moment in Biblical Interpretation ?? William H. Myers

Part II. God's Black(ened) People in the World-Thugs, Slaves and Criminals

4. God's Only Begotten Thug ?? Allen Dwight Callahan
5. Abolitionist Messiah: A Man Named Jesus Born of a Doule ?? Mitzi J. Smith
6. Reading with the Enslaved: Placing Human Bondage at the Center of the Early Christian Story ?? Emerson B. Powery
7. "I am a Human": Racializing Assemblages and Criminalized Egyptianness in Acts 21:31-39 ?? Jeremy L. Williams
8. The Terror of White Hermeneutics: Black and Enslaved Bodies Interpreted in the Context of Whiteness ?? Marcus W. Shields

Part III. Africana Hermeneutical Strategies, Pedagogy, Translation, and #BLM

9. Hoodoo Blues and the Formulation of Hermeneutical

About the author

Mitzi J. Smith is the J. Davison Philips Professor of New Testament at Columbia Theological Seminary in Decatur, GA. Angela N. Parker is assistant professor of New Testament and Greek at Mercer University’s McAfee School of Theology in Atlanta, GA. Ericka S. Dunbar Hill is visiting professor of Hebrew Bible at Payne Theological Seminary in Wilberforce, OH.Ericka S. Dunbar Hill is visiting professor of Hebrew Bible at Payne Theological Seminary in Wilberforce, OH.Angela N. Parker is assistant professor of New Testament and Greek at Mercer University’s McAfee School of Theology in Atlanta, GA. Kamilah Hall Sharp is Director of the Doctor of Ministry in Public Ministry Program and Assistant Professor of Hebrew Bible and Public Ministry at Chicago Theological Seminary.Mitzi J. Smith is the J. Davison Philips Professor of New Testament at Columbia Theological Seminary in Decatur, GA.

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.

Product details

• Authors: Mitzi J. Parker Smith
• Assisted by: Parker Angela N. Parker (Editor), Ericka S. Dunbar Hill (Editor), Dunbar Hill Ericka S. Dunbar Hill (Editor), Ericka S. Dunbar Hill (Editor), Smith Mitzi J. Smith (Editor), Angela N. Parker (Editor), Mitzi J. Smith (Editor), Smith Mitzi J. (Editor)
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.09.2023
• EAN: 9781978712027
• ISBN: 978-1-978712-02-7
• No. of pages: 298
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Cultural history; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; USA, Ethnic Studies, Social & cultural history, RELIGION / Biblical Studies / Exegesis & Hermeneutics, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Black Studies (Global), Christianity, Social and cultural history, United States of America, USA, Ethnic minorities & multicultural studies, Black & Asian Studies, Criticism and exegesis of sacred texts, Biblical Studies & Exegesis, Relating to African American / Black American people