Blackening of the Bible: The Aims of African American Biblical

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Blackening of the Bible: The Aims of African American Biblical Scholarship (African American Religious Thought and Life)

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 â€œblackening of the Bible,â€ 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.

Country	USA
Author	Michael Joseph Brown
Binding	Paperback
EAN	9781563383632
Edition	1
ISBN	1563383632
Label	Bloomsbury T&T Clark
Manufacturer	Bloomsbury T&T Clark
NumberOfItems	1
NumberOfPages	240
PublicationDate	2004-10-08
Publisher	Bloomsbury T&T Clark
ReleaseDate	2004-10-08
Studio	Bloomsbury T&T Clark

Blackening of the Bible: The Aims of African American Biblical Scholarship (African American Religious Thought and Life)