Race and biblical studies : antiracism pedagogy for the classroom / edited by Tat-siong Benny Liew and Shelly Matthews.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Liew, Tat-siong Benny, editor.

Matthews, Shelly, editor.

Series:

Resources for biblical study ; no. 101.

Resources for biblical study ; Number 101

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bible--Study and teaching (Higher).

Bible.

Multicultural education--United States.

Multicultural education.

Culturally relevant pedagogy--United States.

Culturally relevant pedagogy.

Anti-racism--Study and teaching--United States.

Anti-racism.

Race awareness--Study and teaching--United States.

Race awareness.

Education, Higher.

Anti-racism--Study and teaching.

Race awareness--Study and teaching.

United States.

Physical Description:

xiii, 307 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Atlanta, Georgia : SBL Press, 2022.

Summary:

"The biblical studies classroom can be a site of personal and social transformation. To make it a space for positive change, the contributors to this volume question and reevaluate traditional teaching practices and assessment tools that foreground white, Western scholarship in order to offer practical guidance for an antiracist pedagogy. The introduction and fifteen essays provide tools for engaging issues of social context and scriptural authority, nationalism and religious identities, critical race theory, and how race, gender, and class can be addressed empathetically. Contributors Sonja Anderson, Randall C. Bailey, Eric D. Barreto, Denise Kimber Buell, Greg Carey, Haley Gabrielle, Wilda C. Gafney, Julián Andrés González Holguín, Sharon Jacob, Tat-siong Benny Liew, Francisco Lozada Jr., Shelly Matthews, Roger S. Nam, Wongi Park, Jean-Pierre Ruiz, Abraham Smith, and Kay Higuera Smith share their experience creating classrooms that are spaces that enable the production of new knowledge without reproducing a white subject of the geopolitical West." -- Page 4 of cover.

Contents:

Introduction: Racism, classroom teaching, and beyond / Tat-siong Benny LIew, Shelly Matthews

Part 1. Naming Contexts

From Africa to Mesopotamia (Genesis 2:13-14) and from India to Ethiopia (Esther 1:1b): How an Afro-Asiatic biblical construction was twisted into a Eurocentric claim / Randall C. Bailey

Anachronistic whiteness and the ethics of interpretation / Denise Kimber Buell

Is the Hebrew Bible racist? Diversity and antiracist reading practices / Julián Andrés González Holguin

One nation under God: Teaching biblical studies in the era of religious nationalism / Sharon Jacob

Exegeting racism: Before and after Hurricane Maria / Jean-Pierre Ruiz

Staying awake: Constructing critical race literacy and reorienting biblical studies / Abraham Smith

Part 2. Empowering Students

Pedagogies of race and the Bible / Eric D. Barreto

Teaching Vivaldi: Pedagogical responses to the work of Claude M. Steele / Greg Carey

Teaching through Testimonio: Latinx biblical studies and students as knowledge producers / Kay Higuera Smith

An intercultural approach: Latinx students, exegesis, and the border wall / Francisco Lozada Jr.

Part 3. Reframing Contexts

Seeing who's not there: Velázquez's Kitchen Maid with the Supper at Emmaus / Sonja Anderson

Can the biblical subaltern speak? A case for multiple historical criticisms / Haley Gabrielle

Reflections on teaching the Bible and Black Lives Matter in a divinity school / Wilda C. Gafney

"And I will give to you, and to your offspring after you, the land where you are now an Alien": Kinship and land as devices for inclusive pedagogies / Roger S. Nam

A pedagogy of ethnic prejudice in Matthew 15:21-28 / Wongi Park.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

1628374373

9781628374377

9781628375305

1628375302

OCLC:

1341394295