Larry Murphy

The Genesis of Liberation

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“Deploying critical biblical scholarship, the authors illumine the interior spiritual quest of the enslaved and formerly enslaved for ontological legitimation, as evidenced by their interpretive reading of the biblical text. It is full of insight and nuanced understanding of the ways 19th century black folk navigated their way through the currents of the misshapen Christianity presented to them toward a port of liberation. This accessible text demonstrates the generative black agency that defied the mental and spiritual subjugation the slaveocracy attempted to enforce, enabling black hermeneuts to ‘talk back to the Talking Book’—the Bible.”