Part I. Remembering the Past, Laboring in the Present, and Shaping a Hopeful Future
1.The Hill We Climb: Introduction -- Mitzi J. Smith, Angela N. Parker and Ericka Dunbar Hill
2.A Eulogy for Cain Hope Felder -- Brian K. Blount
3.Zoom-ing in on a Watershed Moment in Biblical Interpretation -- William H. Myers
Part II. God's Black(ened) People in the World-Thugs, Slaves and Criminals
4.God's Only Begotten Thug -- Allen Dwight Callahan
5.Abolitionist Messiah: A Man Named Jesus Born of a Doule -- Mitzi J. Smith
6.Reading with the Enslaved: Placing Human Bondage at the Center of the Early Christian Story -- Emerson B. Powery
7.I am a Human: Racializing Assemblages and Criminalized Egyptianness in Acts 21:31-39 -- Jeremy L. Williams
8.The Terror of White Hermeneutics: Black and Enslaved Bodies Interpreted in the Context of Whiteness -- Marcus W. Shields
Part III. Africana Hermeneutical Strategies, Pedagogy, Translation, and #BLM
9.Hoodoo Blues and the Formulation of Hermeneutical Strategies for Contemporary Africana Biblical Engagement -- Hugh R. Page, Jr.
10.Reflections on Teaching Biblical Interpretation through a Black Lives Matter Hermeneutic -- Wil Gafney
11.Revisiting the Caananites and Contemporary Ites: Pedagogical Insights into Cheering for the Wrong Team -- Theodore W. Burgh
12.Reading Romans in Greek: Translating and Commenting on it in Haitian Creole -- Ronald Charles
Part IV. Black Rage and Protest in Times of #Black Lives Matter and #MeToo
13.Rage, Riots, and Rhetoric: Psalm 137 and African American Responses to Violence -- Stacy Davis
14.Rethinking God-breathed in the Age of #Black Lives Matter: A Womanist Reading of 2 Tim 3:10-17 -- Angela N. Parker
15.Leah and Dinah in the Face of Abuse: What Do I Tell My Daughter? -- Kamilah Hall Sharp
16.Antichrist and Anti-Black: 1 John and Black Lives Matter -- Dennis R. Edwards
Part V. Responses
17.John's Apocalypse and African American Interpretation -- Thomas B. Slater
18.Race Still Matters: Mapping the Afterlives of Stony the Road We Trod -- Clarice J. Martin
19.To Think Better Than We Have Been Trained: Thirty Years Later -- Renita J. Weems