I Found God in Me: A Womanist Biblical Hermeneutics Reader - download pdf or read online

I stumbled on God in Me is the 1st womanist biblical hermeneutics reader. In it readers have entry, in a single quantity, to articles on womanist interpretative theories and theology in addition to state of the art womanist readings of biblical texts by means of womanist biblical students. This publication is a superb source for girls of colour, pastors, and seminarians drawn to proper readings of the biblical textual content, in addition to students and lecturers instructing classes in womanist biblical hermeneutics, feminist interpretation, African American hermeneutics, and biblical classes that worth range and discussion as the most important to first-class pedagogy.

"The seed for this wide-ranging quantity in womanist biblical hermeneutics used to be first planted at Howard collage Divinity tuition and has now grown into an outstanding number of essays which represent an important contribution to an ever-growing corpus. It presents wealthy and profitable interpreting for those--female and male alike--who would need to listen to the Bible as a releasing notice of existence for our time--especially for African and African-American ladies. hugely recommended."
--Gosnell L. Yorke, Institute for African Renaissance experiences, college of South Africa, Pretoria, South Africa

"Smith has introduced jointly extraordinary stories by way of verified students and expert doctoral applicants and given us a not easy and thought-provoking choice of essays. it truly is strong studying for pastor and academician alike: for pastors to determine the various implications of a transforming into move for fellowship within the black church; for academicians to have interaction in a continuous task that's not dissipating yet transforming into, a circulation which has major implications for the translation of Scripture and the improvement of Christian theology and ethics sooner or later. The church and the academy are indebted to Smith for this crucial, stimulating study."
--Thomas B. Slater, McAfee institution of Theology, Mercer collage, Macon, GA

Mitzi J. Smith, PhD, is affiliate Professor of latest testomony at Ashland Theological Seminary/Detroit. She is writer of The Literary development of the opposite within the Acts of the Apostles: Charismatics, the Jews, and Women (Pickwick 2011), and coeditor of Teaching All international locations: Interrogating the Matthean nice Commission (2014).