Vincent Lee Wimbush is an American New Testament scholar, known for his work in African American biblical hermeneutics.
Biography
Wimbush received a BA in philosophy from Morehouse College (1975), an M.Div. (1978) from Yale Divinity School, and an AM (1981) and Ph.D. (1983) from Harvard University in the study of religions, with a focus on the New Testament. He taught at a number of institutions, including Union Theological Seminary (1991–2003) and Claremont Graduate University (2003–2014).[1][2] He is the founding director of the Institute for Signifying Scriptures.[3]
In 2010, Wimbush was the president of the Society of Biblical Literature.[1]
African American biblical hermeneutics
Wimbush is a pioneer in the field of African American biblical hermeneutics. He has argued for a need to challenge a Eurocentric understanding of biblical studies. Instead, scholars are to refocus the discipline within the context of North America, with a particular emphasis on the African-American experience.[4] This would result in a hermeneutic that is much more informed by "marginality, liminality, exile, pain, trauma."[5]
Works
- Vaage, Leif E.; Wimbush, Vincent L., eds. (2002). Asceticism and the New Testament. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-135-96224-1.
- Wimbush, Vincent L. (2003). The Bible and African Americans: A Brief History. Fortress Press. ISBN 978-1-4514-1944-3.
- Wimbush, Vincent L. (2008). Theorizing Scriptures: New Critical Orientations to a Cultural Phenomenon. Rutgers University Press. ISBN 978-0-8135-4203-4.
- Wimbush, Vincent L. (2012). Paul, the Worldly Ascetic: Response to the World and Self-Understanding according to I Corinthians 7. Wipf and Stock Publishers. ISBN 978-1-61097-963-4.
- Wimbush, Vincent L. (2014). White Men's Magic: Scripturalization as Slavery. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-934439-0.
References
- ^ a b "Vincent Wimbush CV" (PDF). Institute for Signifying Scriptures. 2019. Retrieved 14 April 2020.
- ^ "Vincent Wimbush, NT". Claremont Graduate University. 23 May 2013. Archived from the original on 23 May 2013. Retrieved 14 April 2020.
- ^ "Director". Institute for Signifying Scriptures. 9 July 2016. Retrieved 14 April 2020.
- ^ Brown, Michael Joseph. "The Blackening of the Bible: The Aims of African American Biblical Scholarship". Society of Biblical Literature. Retrieved 14 April 2020.
- ^ Enis, Larry L. (3 November 2016). "Biblical Interpretation Among African-American New Testament Scholars". Currents in Research. 4 (1): 57–82. doi:10.1177/1476993X05055640. S2CID 144564049.
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