Toward Decentering the New Testament: A Reintroduction - Hardcover

Smith, Mitzi J; Kim, Yung Suk

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 153260467X ISBN 13: 9781532604676

Publisher: Cascade Books, 2018

Synopsis

Toward Decentering the New Testament is the first introductory text to the New Testament written by an African American woman biblical scholar and an Asian-American male biblical scholar. This text privileges the voices, scholarship, and concerns of minoritized nonwhite peoples and communities. It is written from the perspectives of minoritized voices. The first few chapters cover issues such as biblical interpretation, immigration, Roman slavery, intersectionality, and other topics. Questions raised throughout the text focus readers on relevant contemporary issues and encourage critical reflection and dialogue between student-teachers and teacher-students.

About this title

From the Author

The Foreword by Michael Newheart: As I read the book, I felt excited. This material is not the "same-old, same-old" that most textbooks contain. It includes the material that all introductory textbooks cover (author, date, provenance, themes), but it goes beyond. This book contains fresh perspectives that will make the student--and teacher--sit up and read, ponder, question, and perhaps even act. They might say, "Wow! I have never thought about the NT in this way before. I have never thought about how important issues of race, gender, and class are to the reading of the NT. It is important to get an array of perspectives, and the perspectives of these two--Smith and Kim--speak so pointedly, profoundly, and powerfully. I don't think I'll read the New Testament in the same way again." 

About the Author

Mitzi J. Smith is Professor of New Testament and Early Christian Studies at Ashland Theological Seminary, Detroit. She is the author of Insights from African American Interpretation; Womanist Sass and Talk Back: Social (In)Justice, Intersectionality and Biblical Interpretation; I Found God in Me: A Biblical Hermeneutics Reader; The Literary Construction of the Other in the Acts of the Apostles; and co-editor of Teaching All Nations: Interrogating the Matthean Great Commission. Yung Suk Kim is Associate Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity at Samuel DeWitt Proctor School of Theology, Virginia Union University. Kim is the author of eight books, including Christ's Body in Corinth, Biblical Interpretation, Resurrecting Jesus, and Messiah in Weakness. He edited two volumes: 1-2 Corinthians and Reading Minjung Theology in the Twenty-First Century. Kim is editor of Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Religion and Journal of Bible and Human Transformation.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cascade Books
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 153260467X
• ISBN 13: 9781532604676
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 364