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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “mitzi j smith”
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  • Toward Decentering the New Testament

    A Reintroduction

    by Mitzi J. Smith, Yung Suk Kim ...
    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 ... Read more

    $33.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • I Found God in Me

    A Womanist Biblical Hermeneutics Reader

    Edited by Mitzi J. Smith ...
    I Found God in Me is the first womanist biblical hermeneutics reader. In it readers have access, in one volume, to articles on womanist interpretative theories and theology as well as cutting-edge womanist readings of biblical texts by womanist biblical scholars. This book is an excellent resource for women of color, pastors, and seminarians interested in relevant readings of the biblical text, as ... Read more

    $28.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Womanist Sass and Talk Back

    Social (In)Justice, Intersectionality, and Biblical Interpretation

    by Mitzi J. Smith ...
    Womanist Sass and Talk Back is a contextual resistance text for readers interested in social (in)justice. Smith raises our consciousness about pressing contemporary social (in)justice issues that impact communities of color and the larger society. Systemic or structural oppression and injustices, police profiling and brutality, oppressive pedagogy, and gendered violence are placed in dialogue with ... Read more

    $15.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Not Wanting a Thing to Be the Thing

    An African American Woman Biblical Scholar’s Stroke Memoir

    by Mitzi J. Smith ...
    Not Wanting a Thing to Be the Thing is the first stroke memoir written by a Black woman biblical scholar. Smith's story is her mother's story, and it is not. It is the story of other stroke survivors, and it is not. It is a unique telling of the civil war that erupts in her body. It is a journey of not knowing, awareness, survival, fragmentation, discovery, and recovery. Smith's story is inspiring ... Read more

    $13.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Chloe and Her People

    A Womanist Critical Dialogue with First Corinthians

    by Mitzi J. Smith ...
    Chloe and Her People offers an Africana Womanist reading of First Corinthians that privileges the knowledge, experiences, histories, traditions, voices, and artifacts of Black women and the Black community that challenge or dissent from Paul's rhetorical epistemic constructions. Smith reads First Corinthians dialogically from the perspective of oppressed and marginalized readers situated in front ... Read more

    $15.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • We Are All Witnesses

    Toward Disruptive and Creative Biblical Interpretation

    by Mitzi J. Smith, Michael Willett Newheart ...
    We Are All Witnesses is a remarkable, sassy, creative, disruptive, and deeply personal textbook. It is like no other text on biblical interpretation. Smith and Newheart have produced a groundbreaking milestone book about how to do biblical interpretation that prioritizes justice and the reader's context. It is both memoir and metatestimony! The layperson, college students, and seminary students ... Read more

    $17.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Teaching All Nations

    Interrogating the Matthean Great Commission

    Edited by Jayachitra Lalitha, Mitzi J. Smith ...
    That Christian missionary efforts have long gone hand-in-hand with European colonization and American imperialist expansion in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries is well recognized. The linchpin role played in those efforts by the Great Commissionthe risen Christs command to go into all the world and teach all nationshas more often been observed than analyzed, however. With the rise of ... Read more

    $44.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Insights from African American Interpretation

    by Mitzi J. Smith, Mark Allen Powell ...
    Series series Insights
    p>Each volume in the Insights series discusses discoveries and insights gained into biblical texts from a particular approach or perspective in current scholarship. Accessible and appealing to today’s students, each Insight volume discusses how this method, approach, or strategy was first developed and how its application has changed over time; what current questions arise from its use; what ... Read more

    $27.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Literary Construction of the Other in the Acts of the Apostles

    Charismatics, the Jews, and Women

    by Mitzi J. Smith ...
    Series Book 154 - Princeton Theological Monograph Series
    Too often the negative characterization of "others" in the biblical text is applied to groups and persons beyond the text whom we wish to define as the Other. Otherness is a synthetic and political social construct that allows us to create and maintain boundaries between "them" and "us." The other that is too similar to us is most problematic. This book demonstrates how proximate characters are ... Read more

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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 Brian K. Blount, Theodore W. Burgh, Allen Dwight Callahan, Ronald Charles, Stacy Davis, Ericka S. Dunbar Hill, Dennis R. Edwards, Wil Gafney, Clarice J. Martin, William H. Myers0, Hugh R. Page, Jr.1, Angela N. Parker2, Emerson B. Powery4, Marcus W. Shields5, Kamilah Hall Sharp6, Thomas B. Slater7, Mitzi J. Smith8, Renita J. Weems0, Jeremy L. Williams1 ...
    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 ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • Minoritized Women Reading Race and Ethnicity

    Intersectional Approaches to Constructed Identity and Early Christian Texts

    by Angela Parker, Jennifer T. Kaalund, Jung H. Choi, Janette H. Ok, Mitzi J. Smith, Jin Young Choi ...
    Series series Feminist Studies and Sacred Texts
    Nonwhite women primarily appear as marginalized voices, if at all, in volumes that address constructions of race/ethnicity and early Christian texts. Employing an intersectional approach, the contributors analyze historical, cultural, literary, and ideological constructions of racial/ethnic identities, which intersect with gender/sexuality class, religion, slavery, and/or power. Given their small ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

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    How the Social Justice Movement Is Hijacking the Gospel - and the Way to Stop It

    by Owen Strachan ...
    In a world that is "woke," how many Christians are actually awake? This short, theologically sound primer is a resource for pastors, ministry leaders, community leaders, and other thinking Christians that explains carefully and clearly what Critical Race Theory and wokeness truly are, what the Bible teaches about race and ethnicity, why wokeness is distinct from Christianity and should be rejected ... Read more

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