Jazz and Word

My first book Experience and Tradition provided me an opportunity to think with others about Black biblical hermeneutics. That book began as I reflected on growing up in a Black and White world in the Midwest and five years in Atlanta. The book Stony the Road We Trod pioneered African-American hermeneutics.  The  African Americans and [...]

The way we read has changed in two fundamental ways. The historicist hermeneutic posited the text as an object. A post-historicist hermeneutic treats the text as a subject that the reader enters a type of relationship. The reader’s perspective now plays a more significant role. Hence the particulars of the reader’s life looms more on [...]