Reading While Black: African American Biblical Interpretation as an Exercise in Hope Format:Paperback alongside the work of writers

alongside the work of writers such as Seamus Heaney and Annie Dillard

full of vitality and life

death came rushing into the world

Sarah Crowley Chestnut

Reading While Black: African American Biblical Interpretation as an Exercise in Hope Format:Paperback alongside the work of writersGrowing up in the American South, Esau McCaulley knew firsthand the ongoing struggle between despair and hope that marks the lives of some in the African American context. A key element in the fight for hope, he discovered, has long been the practice of Bible reading and interpretation that comes out of traditional Black churches. This ecclesial tradition is often disregarded or viewed with suspicion by much of the wider church and academy, but it has