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True to Our Native Land: An African American New Testament Commentary is unavailable, but you can change that!

This pioneering commentary sets biblical interpretation firmly in the context of African American experience and concern. Cutting-edge scholarship that is in tune with African American churches calls into question many of the canons of traditional biblical research and highlights the role of the Bible in African American history, accenting themes of ethnicity, class, slavery, and African heritage...

Allen Dwight Callahan The prologue of the Gospel of John is an account of the divine Word coming to dwell with, in, and through human beings. After the phrase “in the beginning,” there is no hint of Genesis 1 and the creation account. The verbs “create,” “make,” and “form” are absent. Names, events, and vocabulary point not to the creation of the world in Genesis but to the epiphany at Sinai in Exodus 34. The vocabulary of 1:1–18, “word … light … life
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