Teaching Scripture from an African-American Perspective

African-Americans teach scripture from a specific perspective - a perspective grounded in cultural, social, and communal history. This book is not, however, only for African Americans. Drawing on a variety of sources - biblical, philosophical, and literary - Joseph Crockett describes four distinct yet related teaching strategies. Story, Exile, Sanctuary, and Exodus. Each strategy emphasizes a different facet in the lens of African American interpretation - biblical content, personal experience, communal tradition, social analysis - and includes an outline of specific steps for teaching. --- from book's back cover