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 Doulē ‒‒ 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