Clarice J. Martin

Chloe and Her People

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“With Chloe and Her People, Mitzi Smith brilliantly shatters the mystifying and opaque glass encasement of one of the consequential leaders in the Corinthian assembly and first-century Christianity. Chloe finally emerges from the dark shadows of Pauline dominance in the Corinthian correspondence to assume her rightful place on the world stage of the first-century Jesus movement as a firebrand to be reckoned with. A spectacular achievement and required reading for serious students of early Christian origins.”

Insights from African American Interpretation

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“Mitzi Smith’s Insights from African American Interpretation, provides more than banal insights about this historic, vitalizing, and enduring discipline. Smith fixes with precision the debt all biblical scholars owe to generations of Black peoples who have wrestled with the meaning and power of the Bible—the “Talking Book” —for their lives. Her agile compendium of essays rigorously interrogates and nuances the fierce power, imagination, complexity, and resilience of African American Biblical Interpretation through the centuries. Erudite, absorbing, and disciplined, Smith’s analysis situates and problematizes major theoretical shifts in African American hermeneutical approaches within their discrete historical contexts and matrices, inclusive of postcolonial criticism and theories, womanist criticism and theorizing, critical race theory, and cultural studies approaches, among others. Must-read for specialists and experts interested in mapping and theorizing the transgressive and transformational power and iterations of race, culture, and community in sacred narratives.”

We Are All Witnesses

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“We Are All Witnesses’ exhilarating and engrossing collection of essays represents an epistemological earthquake for serious biblical interpreters weary of tepid, bowdlerized approaches to Christian Testament interpretation. At last, we have a sturdy, subtle, original scholarly work that explores the deep ideational, transformative, and threatening potential of viewing the Christian Testament as a ‘canonized collection of testimonies’ that are, at once, inescapably subjective, transformative, and disruptive.”