| Onesimus Our Brother: Reading Religion, Race and Culture in Philemon Contributor(s): Johnson, Matthew V. (Editor), Noel, James A. (Editor), Williams, Demetrius K. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0800663411 ISBN-13: 9780800663414 Publisher: Fortress Press OUR PRICE: $41.80 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: July 2012 Annotation: Philemon is as important a letter from an African American perspective as Romans or Galatians have proven to be in Eurocentric interpretation. Here the editors gather critical essays by a constellation of African American and other scholars, highlighting the latest in interpretive methods and troubling scholarly waters, interacting with the legacies of Hegel, Freud, Habermas, Ricoeur, and James C. Scott as well as the historical experience of African American communities. Onesimus Our Brother opens surprising new vistas on Pauls shortest and, in some ways, most troubling letter. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Religion | Biblical Meditations - New Testament - Religion | Biblical Studies - New Testament - General - Religion | Biblical Criticism & Interpretation - New Testament |
| Dewey: 227.860 |
| LCCN: 2012005233 |
| Series: Paul in Critical Contexts |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 6.2" W x 9.1" (0.95 lbs) 184 pages |
| Themes: - Religious Orientation - Christian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Philemon is the shortest letter in the Pauline collection, yetbecause it has to do with a slave separated from his masterit has played an inordinate role in the toxic brew of slavery and racism in the United States. In Onesimus Our Brother, leading African American biblical scholars tease out the often unconscious assumptions about religion, race, and culture that permeate contemporary interpretation of the New Testament and of Paul in particular. The editors argue that Philemon is as important a letter from an African American perspective as Romans or Galatians have proven to be in Eurocentric interpretation. The essays gathered here continue to trouble scholarly waters, interacting with the legacies of Hegel, Freud, Habermas, Ricoeur, and James C. Scott, as well as the historical experience of African American communities. Contributors include the editors and Mitzi J. Smith, Margaret B. Wilkerson, James W. Perkinson, and Allen Dwight Callahan. |