True to Our Native Land: An African American New Testament Commentary, 2nd ed.
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Overview
True to Our Native Land is a pioneering commentary on the New Testament that sets biblical interpretation firmly in the context of African American experience and concern.
In this second edition, the scholarship is cutting-edge, updated, and expanded to be in tune with African American culture, education, and churches. The book calls into question many 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 as these play a role in Christian Scripture and the Christian odyssey of an emancipated people.
- Highlights the role of the Bible in African American history
- Sets biblical interpretation firmly in the context of African American experience and concern
- Second edition is updated, and expanded
This new edition is a fine biblical resource that reflects the social and cultural shifts we have undergone since the first edition as well as the world in which we now read and hear the New Testament. With their distinctive, powerful scholarship and insights, the authors—old and new—bring this second edition into our present and maintain rigorous and powerful Black biblical hermeneutics. This will continue to be a resource we can turn to time and again.
—Emilie M. Townes, E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter University Distinguished Professor of Womanist Ethics and Society and Gender and Sexuality Studies, Vanderbilt University Divinity School
The Black community’s relationship with the Bible is complex. Historically, paradigms of interpretive practice have moved on a continuum of radical biblical criticism and textual inerrancy on one end and strategies for reading against problematic passages with suspicion and criticism on the other. The contributors to this second edition of True to Our Native Land collectively and compellingly profess that the Bible has an Africana story and that this truth-bearing communal declaration cannot be ignored. For inquisitive readers who are burdened by the call to speak truthfully in unsettling times on a planet we all hope will survive us, something of searching significance is captured in each commentary essay in this work. Here is an excellent biblical resource that bestows upon its readers, irrespective of their cultural creed or tribal commitment, the invaluable gift of encountering the Bible’s timeless and timely witness anew with both head and heart.
—Kenyatta R. Gilbert, dean and professor of homiletics, Howard University School of Divinity
Given the many and profound changes in the social and cultural context of the country since the first edition of 2007, changes that have affected African Americans in direct and detrimental fashion, a second edition of this commentary is eminently in order. I find the updated edition to be duly encompassing and keenly incisive regarding the times. It is to be highly welcomed.
—Prof. Dr. Fernando F. Segovia, Oberlin Graduate Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity, Vanderbilt University Divinity School
- Title: True to Our Native Land: An African American New Testament Commentary, 2nd ed.
- Authors: Brian K. Blount, Gay L. Byron, Emerson Powery
- Publisher: Fortress Press
- Print Publication Date: 2024
- Pages: 600
- Era: era:contemporary
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Resource ID: LLS:TRRNTVTSTMNTCMM
- Resource Type: Bible Commentary
- Metadata Last Updated: 2024-10-07T16:05:55Z