Beverly Roberts Gaventa

Emerson B. Powery

Lisa M. Bowens

Reception, Resistance, and Transformation

African American Readings of Paul

Gay L. Byron

Brian K. Blount

True to Our Native Land is a pioneering commentary of the New Testament that sets biblical interpretation firmly in the context of African American experience and concern. The second edition includes updated commentaries and essays.

An African American New Testament Commentary

True to Our Native Land, Second Edition

True to Our Native Land is a pioneering commentary on the New Testament that sets biblical interpretation firmly in the context of African American experience and concern. In this second edition, the scholarship is cutting-edge, updated, and expanded to be in tune with African American culture, education, and churches. The book calls into question many canons of traditional biblical research and highlights the role of the Bible in African American history, accenting themes of ethnicity, class, slavery, and African heritage as these play a role in Christian Scripture and the Christian odyssey of an emancipated people.

This project, using literary analysis, highlights Jesus' explicit citations of scripture within each Synoptic Gospel as an important component of each Gospel's narrative rhetoric.

Emerson B. Powery

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