Research Catalog

Title

Insights from African American interpretation / Mitzi J. Smith

Author

Smith, Mitzi J. (Mitzi Jane)

Publication

• Minneapolis : Fortress Press, [2017]
• ©2017

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Details

Description

ix, 143 pages; 23 cm

Summary

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 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. - from publisher.

Series Statement

Reading the Bible in the 21st century

Uniform Title

Reading the Bible in the 21st century, insights series.

Subject

• Bible > Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Bible > Black interpretations
• Bible
• African Americans > Religion
• Black interpretations

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 123-136) and index.

Contents

Introducing African American interpretation -- Twentieth-century foundations -- African American biblical interpretation in the early twenty-first century -- Slavery, torture, systemic oppression, and kingdom rhetoric : an African American reading of Matthew 25:1-13 -- Dis-membering, sexual violence, and confinement : a womanist intersectional reading of the Story of the Levite's wife (Judges 19).

Call Number

Sc E 17-779

ISBN

• 1506400175 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 9781506400174 (pbk. : alk. paper)

OCLC

966556845

Author

Smith, Mitzi J. (Mitzi Jane)

Title

Insights from African American interpretation / Mitzi J. Smith

Publisher

Minneapolis : Fortress Press, [2017]

Copyright Date

©2017

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Reading the Bible in the 21st century

Reading the Bible in the 21st century, insights series.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 123-136) and index.

Local Subject

Black author.

Research Call Number

Sc E 17-779