Preface: Locating the Project

doi:10.18574/nyu/9781479835966.002.0008

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Preface: Locating the Project

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August 2015

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African American biblical interpretation has taken a decisive turn toward cultural studies.¹ In its nascent stages, the project was burdened by the constraints of the historical-critical paradigm. Its methodological concerns focused black biblical interpretation on excavating a past that preceded the production of the biblical text, whether in ancient Israel or in the Greco-Roman world. Many scholars now find such demands unwieldy as these scholars pursue newer questions that explore the Bible’s relationship to contemporary worlds. Even black scholars who were once deeply wedded to historical-critical results now find themselves thinking about the Bible in relation to contemporary cultural questions. Nonetheless, their historical-critical sensibilities remain useful even if they have redirected the orientation of their study.²

The inclusion of cultural studies in biblical scholarship has been three decades in the making.³ During that time, African American biblical interpretation matured into a venerable mode of study within biblical studies that both critically informs and has been informed by its larger field. Even before cultural studies proper found its way into the stock of methodologies of biblical scholars, early studies in the 1980s and 1990s pioneered the new territory. Renita Weems’s Just a Sister Away: A Womanist Vision of Women’s Relationships in the Bible seamlessly blended scholarly rigor and eloquent poetics to interpret the Bible through the experiences of African American women.⁴ In 1989, Cain Hope Felder inaugurated the current academic conversation with the first major exploration, Troubling Biblical Waters: Race, Class and Family.⁵ In 1991, Stony the Road We Trod: African American Biblical Interpretation gathered the most prominent African American biblical hermeneuts to demonstrate the broad spectrum of black academic interpretive modes and to explore its most pressing questions.⁶

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