Theologizing in Black: On Africana Theological Ethics and Anthropology

Abstract

argued way, an important topic especially within Africana interpretive contexts of religion, theology, and biblical scholarship. What, in my view, makes the volume unique and thus interesting is that it deviates from others, especially those in the field of Hebrew Bible studies in terms of its treatment of the biblical Hagar character, by enlisting material from other disciplines such as African American History, Classics, Literature as well as Islamic studies among others, thus foregrounding the need for multi-interand trans-disciplinary studies in the scholars’ engagement with the biblical text. What I find missing though is the author’s omission of a deliberate engagement with the theme of the book’s function in the context of race studies, especially in a context that still sets great store by white supremacy like the U.S. One would certainly recommend Reimagining Hagar: Blackness and Bible to Bible, Theology and Religion scholars and students and the laity in general, and especially those with a keen interest in the (Hebrew) Bible and race studies and in the recovery of the Black presence in the Christian Bible.