The Africana Bible: Reading Israel's Scriptures from Africa and the African Diaspora - Hardcover

Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Rev. Valerie Bridgeman, PhD, is dean and vice president of Academic Affairs, as well as associate professor of homiletics and Hebrew Bible, at Methodist Theological School of Ohio. She also is founding president and CEO of WomanPreach! Inc.--the premier nonprofit organization that brings preachers to full prophetic voice. Dr. Bridgeman has lectured or taught in some of the nation's top seminaries and divinity schools. She has been in licensed or ordained ministry since 1977. She is a regular contributor to workingpreacher.org and writes frequently for the Journal for Preachers.

Stacy Davis is professor of religious studies and theology at Saint Mary's College, Notre Dame, Indiana. Her research areas are African American biblical interpretation, feminist biblical interpretation, and rhetorical criticism. She is the author of This Strange Story: Jewish and Christian Interpretation of the Curse of Canaan from Antiquity to 1865 (UPA, 2008) and Haggai and Malachi in the Wisdom Commentary Series (Liturgical, 2015). She is also a contributing general editor of the forthcoming Westminster John Knox Study Bible.

Cheryl A. Kirk-Duggan is an African American womanist theologian; a professor, author, and poet; and an elder in the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church. She is professor emerita of religion and women's studies, as well as director of Women's Studies, at Shaw University Divinity School.

Madipoane Masenya (Ngwan'a Mphahlele) is professor of Old Testament studies in the Department of Biblical and Ancient Studies at the University of South Africa, Pretoria.

Hugh R. Page, Jr. is professor of theology and Africana Studies at the University of Notre Dame, where he also serves as vice president for Institutional Transformation and as Advisor to the President. An Episcopal priest, Page holds a bachelor's in history from Hampton University, two master's degrees from The General Theological Seminary in New York, a doctorate in ministry from the Graduate Theological Foundation, and master's and doctoral degrees in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations from Harvard University.