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Books
Black Samson: The Untold Story of an American Icon (Oxford University Press, 2020) ISBN 978-0-190-68978-0

Reimagining Hagar: Blackness and Bible (Oxford University Press, 2019) ISBN 978-0-198-74532-7

An Introduction to Womanist Biblical Interpretation (Westminster John Knox Press, 2015) ISBN 978-0-664-25987-7

Articles

 * “How Racial Bias in Tech Has Developed the ‘New Jim Code’ in Hyperallergic Magazine (Oct 8, 2020)
 * “#BlackInTheIvory Documents Anti-Blackness in the Academy” in Women in Higher Education (Sep 1, 2020)
 * “Saying ‘All Black Lives Matter’ Matters” in DAME Magazine (Jun 22, 2020)
 * “The Story of the Black King Among the Magi” in Hyperallergic Magazine (Jan 6, 2020)
 * “Jezebel Isn’t Who You Think She Is” in DAME Magazine (Nov 5, 2019)
 * “Stop Calling Black Women ‘Superheroes’” in DAME Magazine (Jul 12, 2018)
 * “Patricia Arquette’s remarks explain why some black women don’t call themselves feminists” in The Washington Post (Feb 24, 2015)
 * “Can Janelle Monae Help Break Down Yoga’s Race Barrier?” in DAME Magazine (Apr 14, 2015)
 * “Remembering Cain Hope Felder, Scholar Who Highlighted the Bible’s African Presence” in Religion & Politics (Nov 12, 2019)
 * “Cyntoia Brown and how the U.S. Criminal Justice System Fails Black Women and Girls” in America: The Jesuit Review (August 5, 2019)
 * “Black Church Taught Me How to Be Black” in Buzzfeed News (Jun 23, 2015)
 * “Eugene Peterson and the Imperative of Biblical Literacy” in Religion & Politics (Nov 27, 2018)

Essays

 * “Imagined Black Death” in Ancient Jew Review (Apr 7, 2020)
 * “Me and My Regalia” in Feminist Studies in Religion (May 17, 2014)

Linked pages on the Wikipedia page (Hagar, Samson, publishers) and added the 2 essays

Removed section on her personal life and changed it to sentence saying that her and Jeremy Schipper co-authored a book together, rather than saying the 2 are partners.

Reimagining Hagar: Blackness and Bible
Nyasha Junior's book, Reimagining Hagar: Blackness and Bible was published in 2019. In this book, Junior provides a reception history of the Biblical character Hagar, whose story is found in Genesis 16 and 21. Reimagining Hagar focuses on interpretations of Hagar as a black woman and particularly those interpretations of Hagar that are made by African Americans. Junior examines interpretations of Hagar and how markers of difference like gender, ethnicity, and status intersect in various portrayals of Hagar. In Reimagining Hagar, Junior: "argues that there is an African presence in Biblical texts, identifies and responds to White supremacist interpretations, provides a cultural-historical interpretation that attends to the history of biblical interpretation within Black communities, and provides ideological criticism that uses the African-American context as a reading strategy." Junior has received much praise for this book, with critic Andrew S. Jacobs writing, "In chasing down the ‘mystery of Black Hagar,’ Nyasha Junior uncovers a deeper story: about cultural resistance to the “White default” of the Bible and its continued Orientalist, anti-Black, anti-Jewish, and anti-woman uses."