Transforming Scriptures: African American Women Writers and the Bible

by KatherineClayBassard (Author)

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  Paperback
  2011

  $36.74

  Transforming Scriptures is the first sustained treatment of African American women writers intellectual, even theological, engagements with the Bible. Katherine Clay Bassard looks at poetry, novels, speeches, sermons, and prayers to address a range of issues including biblical justifications of slavery and the second-class status of women.