Bitter the Chastening Rod: Africana Biblical Interpretation After Stony the Road We Trod in the Age of Blm, Sayhername, and Metoo Smith Mitzi J.

Bitter the Chastening Rod follows in the footsteps of the first collection of African American biblical interpretation, Stony the Road We Trod (1991). They present pedagogical strategies for teaching, hermeneutics, and bible translation that center Black Lives Matter and black culture. Nineteen Africana biblical scholars contribute cutting-edge essays reading Jesus, criminalization, the enslaved, and whitened interpretations of the enslaved.

Biblical narratives, news media, and personal stories intertwine in critical discussions of black rage, protest, anti-blackness, and mothering in the context of black