D. H. Kortright Davis

Africa and the Bible

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“Gene Rice has spent half of a century opening our eyes and minds to a wellspring of literary treasures deeply embedded in biblical antiquity, and powerfully enriching for those whose blessings of Ebony Grace have been systemically occluded by scholarly prejudice, and white hermeneutical arrogance. In his inimitable diligence and passionate search for cultural liberation and spiritual truth, he has carefully peeled back many of the presumed myopic interpretations and layers of texts in the Hebrew Scriptures. These interpretations have tended to preclude the liberating vistas of divine embrace of African and other Ebony virtues, values, and visions that have been channeled through the rich stories of the pervasive African presence in Sacred Scripture. This volume re-echoes that divine command: Fiat Lux!!”