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Stony the Road We Trod: African American Biblical Interpretation is unavailable, but you can change that!

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...

of oppressive and dehumanizing socio-economic, environmental, and political structures. In spite of the opinions of some black interpreters of Scripture who stress eschatology as opposed to creation or liberation, it is apparent that fundamental to any black biblical hermeneutic are the universal parenthood of God and the concomitant universal kinship of humankind. Consequently, blacks have been able to: (1) allow the Bible to speak both constructively and critically to each new situation; (2) strive
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