African-American Biblical Hermeneutics

Call For Papers: The specific purpose of the African American Biblical Hermeneutics Section (AABHS) is to engage in the interdisciplinary and holistic study of the Bible and its place in a multi-faceted and complex African-American cultural Weltanschauung. AABHS will offer four sessions for the 2015 Annual Meeting. We will offer one session that will be an open call for paper proposals that address any aspect of African American biblical research. Second, we are planning a joint session to honor the work of Randall Bailey, one of the leading scholars in African American Hermeneutics, with the SBL LGBTI/Queer Hermeneutics section and the AAR Bible in Racial, Ethnic, and Indigenous Communities Group. A third session will also be a joint session, this time with the Bible and Culture section, which will focus on Immigration Detention and Mass Incarceration in the New South. This session invites papers that approach the biblical theme of the captive body from the broad span of contemporary critical theories. We are especially looking for papers that engage in a parallel reading with prisoners in the Bible and cultural productions by those imprisoned, as well as papers that historicize prison or immigrant readers of the Bible in order to reveal a contrapuntal hermeneutic, tactics of resistance, modes of self-fashioning, and figurations of freedom. Our final session will continue the exploration of the hermeneutics of Martin Luther King Jr. begun in the 2014 annual meeting with additional invited papers that interrogate his appeals to the NT or the Hebrew Bible in published writings, sermons, and political speeches. Please consult the call for proposals in January to learn if there will be opportunities to propose a paper for one of these four sessions.

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