Yet With a Steady Beat

These essays address issues of cultural criticism, utilization of Black religious sources, struggles of Afro-diasporan peoples, and ideological criticism in interpreting the biblical text, using new critical tools and challenging the discipline to broaden the canons of interpretation and sources. Paperback edition available from the Society of Biblical Literature (www.sbl-site.org).

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Introduction

1

(6)

Randall C. Bailey

ESSAYS

Triennial Tithes and the Underdog: A Revisionist Reading of Deuteronomy 14:22--29 and 26:12--15

7

(12)

Harold V. Bennett

The Role of Ethnicity in the Social Location of 1 Corinthians 7:17--24

19

(14)

Brad Ronnell Braxton

The Bible and Models of Liberation in the African American Experience

33

(28)

Demetrius K. Williams

The Sorrow Songs: Laments From Ancient Israel and the African American Diaspora

61

(24)

Wilma Ann Bailey

Textual Harassment? A Hermeneutical Perspective on African American Preaching

85

(18)

Ronald N. Liburd

A Case Study in Eighteenth-Century Afrodiasporan Biblical Hermeneutics and Historiography: The Masonic Charges of Prince Hall

103

(20)

Hugh Rowland Page

Let My People Go! Threads of Exodus in African American Narratives

123

(22)

Cheryl A. Kirk-Duggan

A Prodigal Sings the Blues: The Characterization of Harriett Williams in Langston Hughes's Not without Laughter

145

(16)

Abraham Smith

RESPONSES

Yet with A Steady Beat: The Task of African American Biblical Hermeneutics

161

(8)

Carolyn M. Jones

On the Blurring of Boundaries

169

(8)

Tina Pippin

African American Biblical Hermeneutics: Major Themes and Wider Implications

177

(6)

Norman K. Gottwald

Bibliography

183

(16)

Contributors

199

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