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Blackening of the Bible

By Brown, Michael Joseph

Blackening of the Bible Books

Blackening of the Bible

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Michael Brown offers an overview of the history of the development of African American and Afrocentric biblical interpretation. He then discusses how such scholarship began as an attempt to correct the biases African Americans perceived to be manifest in European and Euro-American biblical scholarship. This corrective, he says, quickly developed a life of its own, and Afrocentric biblical interpretation developed its own interpretive voice and style.
Brown also examines Afrocentrism and the "blackening of the Bible," offering a critique of the color politics of Afrocentric criticism. He examines the evolution of womanism as a method of biblical interpretation, and explores and criticizes the ways that ideological and postcolonial criticism has contributed to Afrocentric biblical criticism. Finally, he presents the challenges he thinks confront the practice of such criticism, and he advances a new paradigm for the project that will put it in conversation with a wider audience of biblical scholars, classicists, historians, and theologians.
Michael Joseph Brown is Assistant Professor of New Testament and Christian Origins, Candler School of theology, Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. He is the author of What They Don't Tell You: A Survivor's Guide to Academic Biblical Studies and The Lord's Prayer through North African Eyes: A Window into Early Christianity.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
242
Release Date:
2004-10-08
Publication Date:
2004-10-08
Publisher:
Continnuum-3PL
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1563383632
ISBN13:
9781563383632
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
310 g
Height:
140 cm
Width:
216 cm
Thickness:
13 cm
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