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Journal Articles, Book Chapter, Essays, and Bible Commentaries

 * “‘He Never Said a Mumbalin Word’: A Womanist Perspective of Crucifixion, Sexual Violence, and Sacralized Silence.” In “When Did We See You Naked?” Edited by Jayme Reaves and David Tombs. London: SCM, 2021. Triple Peer Reviewed
 * “Response to Diverse Contextual Readings of John 4:1–42.” Minoritized Readings (John 4). Edited by Tat-Siong Benny Liew and Fernando Segovia. Forthcoming in Semeia Studies, 2021.
 * “Hagar’s Children Still Ain’t Free: Paul’s Counterterror Rhetoric, Constructed Identity, Enslavement, and Gal 3:28.” In Minoritized Women Reading Race/Ethnicity and Early Christianity. Edited by   Mitzi Smith and Jin Young Choi. Lexington/Fortress Academic, October 2020.
 * “‘What, then, is the Church?’: A Womanist Biblical Scholar’s Response.” @This Point : Repair. Decatur, GA: Columbia Theological Seminary, June 2020. https://www.ctsnet.edu/at-this-point/what-  thenis-church-womanist-response/
 * “Philemon.” Wesley One Volume Commentary. Edited by Kenneth Collins and Robert W. Wall.  United Methodist Publishing House. Nashville: Abingdon, 2020.
 * “Acts of the Apostles,” Lexham Context Commentary: New Testament (LCCNT), released in Logos  Bible Software February 2020.
 * “Howard Thurman and the Religion of Jesus: Survival of the Disinherited and Womanist Wisdom.” Journal for the Study of the Historical Jesus 17.3 (2019): 271–92.
 * “Paul, Timothy and the Respectability Politics of Race: A Womanist Reading of Acts 16:1–5.” Religions / Special Issue – Current Trends in New Testament Study 10.3 (2019). Open access:  https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/10/3/190
 * “‛Love Never Fails’: Re-Reading 1 Cor 13 and Constructing a Womanist Hermeneutic of Love’s Struggle.” Theologies of Failure. Edited by Roberto D. Sirvent and Duncan Reyburn. Eugene,  OR: Cascade, 2019.
 * “Resisting the Great Co-mission.” Unsettling the Word: Biblical Experiments in Decolonization.  Edited by Steve Heinrichs. Winnipeg, Canada: CommonWord, May 2018.
 * “The Politics of Sass, Race, Gender, and the Syrophoenician Woman. A Womanist Reading of Intersectionality and Inter(con)textuality.” Womanist Biblical Interpretation: Expanding the  Discourse. Semeia. Edited by Gay L. Byron and Vanessa Lovelace. Atlanta: SBL Press, 2016.
 * “Womanism, Intersectionality, and Biblical Justice.” Mutuality Magazine 23.2 (2016): 8–11.
 * “Give Me Jesus: Salvation History in the African American Spirituals.” African American Voices.  Edited by Thomas Slater. Vols II and I; Lewiston, NY: Mellon, 2015.
 * "‘This Little Light of Mine’: The Womanist Biblical Scholar as Prophetess, Iconoclast and Activist.” I Found God in Me. Edited by Mitzi J. Smith. Eugene, OR: Cascade, 2015.
 * “Fashioning our Own Souls: A Womanist Reading of the Virgin-Whore Binary in Matthew and Revelation.” I Found God in Me. Edited by Mitzi J. Smith. Eugene, OR: Cascade, 2015.
 * “US Colonial Missions to African Slaves: Catechizing Black Souls, Traumatizing the Black Psyche.” Teaching All Nations: Interrogating the Great Commission. Edited by Mitzi J. Smith and   Lalitha Jayachitra. Minneapolis: Fortress, May 2014.
 * “Knowing More Than is Good for One: A Womanist Interrogation of the Matthean Great Commission.” Teaching All Nations: Interrogating the Great Commission. Edited by Mitzi J. Smith and   Lalitha Jayachitra. Minneapolis: Fortress, July 2014.
 * “Minjung, the Black Masses, and the Global Imperative: A Womanist Reading of Luke’s Soteriological Hermeneutical Circle.” Ochlos and Minjung. Edited by Yung Suk Kim. Eugene, OR: Wipf and  Stock, 2013.
 * “Matthew 13:47–53; Matthew 13:54–58.” Feasting on the Gospels. A Feasting on the Word Project. Louisville: Westminster/John Knox, 2013.
 * “Feminist/Womanist Criticisms” and “African American Biblical Criticism.” Dictionary of Jesus and  The Gospels. Edited by Joel Green, et al. Downers Grove: Intervarsity, 2013.
 * “Give Them What You Have”: A Womanist Reading of the Matthean Feeding Miracle (Matt 14:13–21). The Journal of the Bible and Human Transformation 3.1 (September 2013). [An online peer  reviewed journal], http://www.bibleandtransformation.com/JBHT/Volume_3_%282013%29.html
 * “1 Corinthians 15:12–20” for “Between Text and Sermon.” Interpretation: A Journal of Bible and Theology 67.3 (July 2013).
 * “Zilpha Elaw.” Biographical History of Women Biblical Interpreters. Edited by Marion Taylor.  Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2012.
 * “Philemon.” Women’s Bible Commentary. Third Revised Edition. Edited by Sharon Ringe, Carol Newsom and Jacqueline Lapsley. Louisville: Westminster/John Knox, 2012.
 * “Utility, Fraternity and Reconciliation: Ancient Slavery as a Context for Onesimus.” Onesimus Our Brother: Reading Religion, Race, and Slavery in Philemon. Edited by Demetrius Williams,   James Noel, and Matthew Johnson. Minneapolis: Fortress, 2012.
 * “‘Unbossed and Unbought’: Zilpha Elaw and Old Elizabeth and a Political Discourse of Origins.” Black Theology: An International Journal 9.3 (2011): 287–311.
 * “Slavery and the Early Church.” True to Our Native Land. An African-American New Testament Commentary. Edited by Brian K. Blount, Cain Hope Felder, Clarice J. Martin, Emerson B.   Powery. Minneapolis: Fortress, 2007: 11–22.
 * “Ephesians.” True to Our Native Land. An African-American New Testament Commentary. Edited  by Brian K. Blount, Cain Hope Felder, Clarice J. Martin, Emerson B. Powery. Minneapolis:   Fortress, 2007: 348–62.
 * "Understand Ye a Parable! The Acts of Peter and the Twelve Apostles as Parable Narrative."  Apocrypha: International Journal of Apocryphal Literatures 13 (2002): 29–52.
 * "Roman Slavery in Antiquity." The African American Jubilee Bible. New York: American Bible  Society, 1999:157–85.