Stony the Road We Trod
African American Biblical Interpretation
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Stony the Road We Trod: African American Biblical Interpretation
A hallmark of American black religion is its distinctive use of the Bible in creating community, resisting oppression, and fomenting social change. What can critical biblical studies learn from the African American experience with the Bible, and vice versa?
This singular volume marks the emergence of a critical mass of black biblical scholars. Combining sophisticated exegesis with special sensitivity to issues of race, class, and gender, the authors of this scholarly collection examine the nettling questions of biblical authority, blacks and African in biblical narratives, and the liberating aspects of Scripture. Together they are reshaping and redefining the questions, concerns, and scholarship that determine how the Bible is appropriated by church, academy, and the larger society today.
- Publisher Fortress Press
- Format Paperback
- ISBN 9780800625016
- Dimensions 6 x 9
- Pages 272
- Publication Date June 1, 1991
Endorsements
"A landmark volume...of rigorous scholarship, laying out the issues in African American biblical hermeneutics clearly, cogently, and prophetically."
— Gale A. Yee
— Gale A. Yee
Table of Contents
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Preface
- Interpreting Biblical Scholarship for the Black Church Tradition
Thomas Hoyt, Jr.
- The Hermeneutical Dilemma of the African American Biblical Student
Renita J. Weems
- Reading Her Way through the Struggle: African American Women and the Bible
Renita J. Weems
PART II: AFRICAN AMERICAN SOURCES FOR ENHANCING BIBLICAL INTERPRETATION
- The Bible and African Americans: An Outline of an Interpretative History
Vincent L. Wimbush
- "An Ante-bellum Sermon": A Resource for an African American Hermeneutic
David T. Shannon
PART III: RACE AND ANCIENT BLACK AFRICA IN THE BIBLE
- Race, Racism, and the Biblical Narratives
Cain Hope Felder
- The Black Presence in the Old Testament
Charles B. Copher
- Beyond Identification: The Use of Africans in Old Testament Poetry and Narratives
Randall C. Bailey
PART IV: REINTERPRETING BIBLICAL TEXTS
- Who Was Hagar?
John W. Waters
- The Haustafeln (Household Codes)
in African American Biblical Interpretation: "Free Slaves" and " Subordinate Women"
Clarice J. Martin
- An African American Appraisal of the Philemon-Paul-Onesimus Triangle
Lloyd A. Lewis
Index of Ancient Sources
Index of Topics and Names
Contributors
Map
Introduction
PART I: THE RELEVANCE OF BIBLICAL SCHOLARSHIP AND THE AUTHORITY OF THE BIBLE