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Bitter the Chastening Rod Mitzi J. Smith

Bitter the Chastening Rod By Mitzi J. Smith

Bitter the Chastening Rod by Mitzi J. Smith

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In this book, Africana biblical scholars argue that race, class, gender, and sexuality still matter for doing biblical interpretation/translation, centering the socio-political and cultural contexts of Africana peoples negotiating life, death, and hope in the age of #BLM, #SayHerName, #MeToo, and a global pandemic.

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Bitter the Chastening Rod: Africana Biblical Interpretation after Stony the Road We Trod in the Age of BLM, SayHerName, and MeToo by Mitzi J. Smith

Bitter the Chastening Rod follows in the footsteps of the first collection of African American biblical interpretation, Stony the Road We Trod (1991). Nineteen Africana biblical scholars contribute cutting-edge essays reading Jesus, criminalization, the enslaved, and whitened interpretations of the enslaved. They present pedagogical strategies for teaching, hermeneutics, and bible translation that center Black Lives Matter and black culture. Biblical narratives, news media, and personal stories intertwine in critical discussions of black rage, protest, anti-blackness, and mothering in the context of black precarity.

Bitter the Chastening Rod Reviews

Since African American biblical interpretation is unapologetically contextual, the contributors of Bitter the Chastening Rod engage the cultural history of Black peoples in the U.S. and diaspora, raising new questions about humanity, discipline, and culture amidst social movements such as #BLM, #SayHerName, and #MeToo. Consequently, this collective work of Africana biblical critics emerges as an assemblage of culturally informed knowledge of the text and history, innovative deployments of theories and hermeneutics, and emancipatory pedagogy grounded in praxis. It demonstrates the perseverance, resilience, and brilliance of generations of Black biblical scholarship. As Stony the Road We Trod opened the path not only for Black scholarship but also for other minoritized scholars, this volume is a must-read for all biblical scholars and an invaluable source for faith communities to join the struggle for justice in our time.

-- Jin Young Choi, Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School

Bitter the Chastening Rod provides creative paths to the hackneyed roads that whitestream scholarship has built for Biblical Studies. We are in dire need of imaginative interpretive exercises that challenge how whiteness has pervaded historiography, linguistics, and literary analysis. We also need visionary models to build graduate programs, curriculums, and educational practices attentive to a world facing unprecedented global crises. Bitter the Chastening Rod suggests new paths for such enterprise.

-- Luis Menendez-Antuna, Boston University School of Theology

This compelling sequel of the seminal Stony the Road we Trod proves the pressing relevance of Africana hermeneutics at this historical moment. These diverse readings offer a review of the work of pioneers; bold, historically grounded, and tragically relevant interpretations of individual texts about incarceration and violence; and important challenges to comfortable readers. No New Testament scholar, seminarian, or Christian should look away from the opportunities to enact justice that this volume presents.

-- Candida Moss, University of Birmingham

Bitter the Chastening Rod: Africana Interpretation After Stony the Road we Trod in the Age of #BLM, #SayHerName, and #MeToo is a greatly anticipated volume that, in the spirit of Sankofa, builds upon, expands, and futures Black post-colonial biblical studies. The aggregation of renown scholars that pen this work offers brilliant insights on the biblical text and prophetic movements against subjugation. This important text engages the longstanding and ongoing work of confronting interlocking forms of oppression in the US and globally, centering the continuing need to illuminate connections between Africana biblical studies and the hermeneutical lenses of current revolutionary struggles. It is a must-read that informs any serious engagement of the theological disciplines and meaningful social action.

-- Maisha I. K. Handy, executive director of the Jacquelyn Grant Center for Black Women's Justice and associate professor of Religion and Education, Interdenominational Theological Center

The pioneers of Black biblical scholarship have proudly passed the torch to an equally agile cohort of troublers who ably take up the call to challenge the still prevailing hermeneutic of whiteness. For me, a white scholar, BCR is the companion piece I've been waiting for. I owe these contributors not only a great debt of gratitude for such an essential resource but also my undivided attention and resolve as I trod my own hermeneutical trek.

-- William P. Brown, Columbia Theological Seminary

About Mitzi J. Smith

Mitzi J. Smith is the J. Davison Philips Professor of New Testament at Columbia Theological Seminary in Decatur, GA.

Angela N. Parker is assistant professor of New Testament and Greek at Mercer University's McAfee School of Theology in Atlanta, GA.

Ericka S. Dunbar Hill is visiting professor of Hebrew Bible at Payne Theological Seminary in Wilberforce, OH.

Table of Contents

Part I. Remembering the Past, Laboring in the Present, and Shaping a Hopeful Future

1.The Hill We Climb: Introduction -- Mitzi J. Smith, Angela N. Parker and Ericka Dunbar Hill

2.A Eulogy for Cain Hope Felder -- Brian K. Blount

3.Zoom-ing in on a Watershed Moment in Biblical Interpretation -- William H. Myers

Part II. God's Black(ened) People in the World-Thugs, Slaves and Criminals

4.God's Only Begotten Thug -- Allen Dwight Callahan

5.Abolitionist Messiah: A Man Named Jesus Born of a Doule -- Mitzi J. Smith

6.Reading with the Enslaved: Placing Human Bondage at the Center of the Early Christian Story -- Emerson B. Powery

7.I am a Human: Racializing Assemblages and Criminalized Egyptianness in Acts 21:31-39 -- Jeremy L. Williams

8.The Terror of White Hermeneutics: Black and Enslaved Bodies Interpreted in the Context of Whiteness -- Marcus W. Shields

Part III. Africana Hermeneutical Strategies, Pedagogy, Translation, and #BLM

9.Hoodoo Blues and the Formulation of Hermeneutical Strategies for Contemporary Africana Biblical Engagement -- Hugh R. Page, Jr.

10.Reflections on Teaching Biblical Interpretation through a Black Lives Matter Hermeneutic -- Wil Gafney

11.Revisiting the Caananites and Contemporary Ites: Pedagogical Insights into Cheering for the Wrong Team -- Theodore W. Burgh

12.Reading Romans in Greek: Translating and Commenting on it in Haitian Creole -- Ronald Charles

Part IV. Black Rage and Protest in Times of #Black Lives Matter and #MeToo

13.Rage, Riots, and Rhetoric: Psalm 137 and African American Responses to Violence -- Stacy Davis

14.Rethinking God-breathed in the Age of #Black Lives Matter: A Womanist Reading of 2 Tim 3:10-17 -- Angela N. Parker

15.Leah and Dinah in the Face of Abuse: What Do I Tell My Daughter? -- Kamilah Hall Sharp

16.Antichrist and Anti-Black: 1 John and Black Lives Matter -- Dennis R. Edwards

Part V. Responses

17.John's Apocalypse and African American Interpretation -- Thomas B. Slater

18.Race Still Matters: Mapping the Afterlives of Stony the Road We Trod -- Clarice J. Martin

19.To Think Better Than We Have Been Trained: Thirty Years Later -- Renita J. Weems

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9781978712003
1978712006
Bitter the Chastening Rod: Africana Biblical Interpretation after Stony the Road We Trod in the Age of BLM, SayHerName, and MeToo by Mitzi J. Smith
Mitzi J. Smith
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Rowman & Littlefield
2022-02-28
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