March 24, 2022
Presenter: Shively T. J. Smith
This presentation explores the literary representation of Jesus’ death on the cross in the gospel accounts and its historic Roman spectacle of violence and execution using African American Biblical interpretative histories. We consider what interpretative textures African American history provides the readers of the Passion accounts in the Gospels
Sponsored by the STM
Rev. Dr. Shively T. J. Smith, Assistant Professor of New Testament, Boston University School of Theology.