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Rev. Mitzi J. Smith, Ph.D.
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  • Womanist Sass and Talk Back
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    Womanist Sass and Talk Back is a contextual resistance text for readers interested in social (in)justice. Smith raises our consciousness about pressing contemporary social (in)justice issues that impact communities of color and the larger society.

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  • I Found God In Me: A Womanist Biblical Hermeneutics Reader
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    I Found God in Me is the first womanist biblical hermeneutics reader. In it readers have access, in one volume, to articles on womanist interpretative theories and theology as well as cutting-edge womanist readings of biblical texts by womanist biblical scholars.

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  • True to Our Native Land: An African American New Testament Commentary (Contributor)
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    This pioneering commentary sets biblical interpretation firmly in the context of African American experience and concern. 

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  • Onesimus Our Brother: Reading Religion, Race, and Slavery in Philemon (Contributor)
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    In Onesimus Our Brother, leading African American biblical scholars tease out the often unconscious assumptions about religion, race, and culture that permeate contemporary interpretation of the New Testament and of Paul in particular.

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  • Unsettling the Word (Contributor)
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    For generations, the Bible has been employed by settler colonial societies as a weapon to dispossess Indigenous and racialized peoples of their lands, cultures, and spiritualities. Given this devastating legacy, many want nothing to do with it. But is it possible for the exploited and their allies to reclaim the Bible from the dominant powers?

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  • Feasting on the Gospels. Matthew, Part 1 (Contributor)
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    Feasting on the Gospels is a new seven-volume series that follows up on the success of the Feasting on the Word series to provide another unique preaching resource, this time on the most prominent and preached upon New Testament books, the four Gospels.

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  • The Audacity of Faith: Christian Leaders Reflect on the Election of Barack Obama (Contributor)
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    A rich and passionate compilation of sermons and essays from religious leaders across the Christian landscape, all reflecting on the 2008 historic election of Barack Obama as the forty-fourth president of the United States of America.

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  • Reading Minjung Theology in the Twenty-First Century (Contributor)
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    This edited volume brings Ahn Byung-Mu’s minjung theology into dialogue with twenty-first-century readers. Ahn Byung-Mu was one of the pioneers of Korean minjung theology. The centerpiece of his minjung theology is focused on the Greek word ochlos, understood as the divested, marginalized, powerless people.

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  • Toward Decentering the New Testament: A Reintroduction (Co-Author)
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    Toward Decentering the New Testament is the first introductory text to the New Testament written by an African American woman biblical scholar and an Asian-American male biblical scholar. This text privileges the voices, scholarship, and concerns of minoritized nonwhite peoples and communities. It is written from the perspectives of minoritized voices.

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  • Handbook of Women Biblical Interpreters: A Historical and Biographical Guide (Contributor)
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    The history of women interpreters of the Bible is a neglected area of study. Marion Taylor presents a one-volume reference tool that introduces readers to a wide array of women interpreters of the Bible from the entire history of Christianity. Her research has implications for understanding biblical interpretation--especially the history of interpretation--and influencing contemporary study of women and the Bible.

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  • Dictionary of Jesus and the Gospels (Contributor)
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    The second edition of the Dictionary of Jesus and the Gospels is a thoroughly reconstructed and revised version of the critically acclaimed 1992 first edition.

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  • The Literary Construction of the Other in the Acts of the Apostles: Charismatics, the Jews, and Women by Mitzi J. Smith
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    The author explains how, as in the real world, the characterization of the Others is used negatively in the biblical texts. Smith shows how the concept of difference is constructed in order to distinguish ourselves from proximate others: indeed, the other who is most similar to us is most threatening and most problematic.

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  • Insights From African American Interpretation
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    Mitzi J. Smith describes the distinctive African American experience of Scripture, from slavery to Black Liberation and beyond, and the unique angles of perception that an intentional African American interpretation brings to the text for a contemporary generation of scholars.

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  • Teaching All Nations
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    Teaching All Nations. Interrogating the Matthean Great Commission is now available.

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