Black Samson: The Untold Story of an American Icon

ISBN-13: 9780190689780 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 192 str.

Jeremy Schipper; Nyasha Junior

Recenzje

This is an original and ingenious book. The fact that biblical characters such as Samson have played a large role in black politics of response in the United States is well-known. Yet there is a void in scholarship on biblical characters using African American informed hermeneutics. Black Samson fills that gap and goes a long way toward expanding the fields of biblical studies, American religion, and African American studies.

O autorze

Dr. Nyasha Junior is Associate Professor in the Department of Religion at Temple University in Philadelphia. She holds a Ph.D. in biblical studies from Princeton Theological Seminary. An award-winning author and expert on feminist, womanist, and African-American biblical interpretation, she writes for scholarly and general audiences at a variety of media outlets. Dr. Jeremy Schipper is a Professor in the Department of Religion at Temple University in Philadelphia. He holds a Ph.D. in biblical studies from Princeton Theological Seminary. A prolific and critically acclaimed author, he has published widely on the use of the Bible in discussions of identity, including ethnicity, gender race, and disability, in ancient and contemporary contexts. He was awarded a 2018 Guggenheim Fellowship for Denmark Vesey's Bible: Biblical Interpretation and the Trial that Changed a Nation.