Disrupting Empires Volume 2 - by Cheryl A Kirk-Duggan & Tina Pippin (Paperback)

About the Book

Disrupting Empires, Volume 2: Conversations with Randall C. Bailey's Black Biblical Interpretation curates essays that reflect an interdisciplinary movement in biblical studies. Scholars from diverse disciplines explore various trajectories of Bailey's groundbreaking work as a Hebrew Bible scholar and its impact on their own disciplines.

Book Synopsis

The role of biblical studies increasingly is becoming an important conversation partner as scholars across of a variety of disciplines explore critical aspects of race and culture, gender and sexuality, and power. The contributions of Hebrew scholar Randell C. Bailey sit at the nexus for such interdisciplinary work. Disrupting Empires, Volume 2: Conversations with Randall C. Bailey's Black Biblical Interpretation curates in interdisciplinary collection of essays that advance new arguments, methodologies, or perspectives in their area of expertise informed by a Bailey's works.

As part of a two-volume set, this collection brings together scholars from diverse, global communities as they explore various trajectories of Bailey's treatments of the biblical text. Scholars ranges from Hebrew Bible and New Testament, ethics, theology, womanism, religious studies, and beyond. Together, their scholarly inquiries explore the impact and import of biblical studies--and specifically Bailey's contributions to biblical studies--throughout their disciplines. As an interdisciplinary resource, Disrupting Empires, Volume 2: Conversations with Randall C. Bailey's Black Biblical Interpretation will find resonance throughout the corners of biblical studies and far beyond.