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	Toward Decentering the New Testament: A Reintroduction by Mitzi J. Smith (Goodreads Author), YungSuk Kim (Goodreads Author), Michael Willett Newheart (Foreword) 4.10 avg rating — 52 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	I Found God in Me: A Womanist Biblical Hermeneutics Reader 4.45 avg rating — 33 ratings — published 2015 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Womanist Sass and Talk Back: Social (In)Justice, Intersectionality, and Biblical Interpretation 4.30 avg rating — 20 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Insights from African American Interpretation by Mitzi J. Smith (Goodreads Author), Mark Allen Powell (Editor) 4.43 avg rating — 14 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	We Are All Witnesses: Toward Disruptive and Creative Biblical Interpretation by Mitzi J. Smith (Goodreads Author), Michael Willett Newheart it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 6 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bitter the Chastening Rod: Africana Biblical Interpretation after Stony the Road We Trod in the Age of BLM, SayHerName, and MeToo by Mitzi J. Smith (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Angela N. Parker (Editor), Ericka S. Dunbar Hill (Editor) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 5 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Teaching All Nations: Interrogating the Matthean Great Commission by Mitzi J. Smith (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Jayachitra Lalitha (Editor) 4.40 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2014 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Chloe and Her People: A Womanist Critical Dialogue with First Corinthians 4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Not Wanting a Thing to Be the Thing: An African American Woman Biblical Scholar's Stroke Memoir by Mitzi J. Smith (Goodreads Author), J. Alfred Smith Sr. (Contributor) 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Literary Construction of the Other in the Acts of the Apostles: Charismatics, the Jews, and Women (Princeton Theological Monograph) liked it 3.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2011 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“The womanist prophetess submits herself to God as a text to be read, indicted, and transformed so that she in turn can be a revolutionary, transformative force in the world.”
― Mitzi J. Smith, I Found God in Me: A Womanist Biblical Hermeneutics Reader

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“She must constantly make available to God her fallible humanity so that God might continually encourage, transform, and regenerate her for the work she is called to do for herself and her community.”
― Mitzi J. Smith, I Found God in Me: A Womanist Biblical Hermeneutics Reader

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“As prophetic activist, the womanist biblical scholar knows her power is derived from her relationship with the God who created the universe and everything in it, and who created all human beings equal.”
― Mitzi J. Smith, I Found God in Me: A Womanist Biblical Hermeneutics Reader

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