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    We Are All Witnesses: Toward Disruptive and Creative Biblical Interpretation
    We Are All Witnesses: Toward Disruptive and Creative Biblical Interpretation
    We Are All Witnesses: Toward Disruptive and Creative Biblical Interpretation
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    We Are All Witnesses: Toward Disruptive and Creative Biblical Interpretation

    By Mitzi J. Smith and Michael Willett Newheart

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    We Are All Witnesses is a remarkable, sassy, creative, disruptive, and deeply personal textbook. It is like no other text on biblical interpretation. Smith and Newheart have produced a groundbreaking milestone book about how to do biblical interpretation that prioritizes justice and the reader's context. It is both memoir and metatestimony! The layperson, college students, and seminary students will find this book accessible. It is indeed creative, witty, and wayward!
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCascade Books
    Release dateFeb 10, 2023
    ISBN9781666714654
    We Are All Witnesses: Toward Disruptive and Creative Biblical Interpretation
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    Mitzi J. Smith

    Mitzi J. Smith is J. Davison Philips Professor of New Testament at Columbia Theological Seminary and Professor Extraordinarius at the University of South Africa, College of the Humanities, Institute of Gender Studies. She co-edited Bitter the Chastening Rod (2022); co-authored Toward Decentering the New Testament (2018); and authored Womanist Sass and Talk Back: Social (In)Justice, Intersectionality and Biblical Interpretation (2018).

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