Vincent L. Wimbush Explained

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.

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

• Book: Vaage . Leif E. . Wimbush . Vincent L. . Asceticism and the New Testament . 2002 . Routledge . 978-1-135-96224-1 . en.
• Book: Wimbush . Vincent L. . The Bible and African Americans: A Brief History . 2003 . Fortress Press . 978-1-4514-1944-3 . en.
• Book: Wimbush . Vincent L. . Theorizing Scriptures: New Critical Orientations to a Cultural Phenomenon . 2008 . Rutgers University Press . 978-0-8135-4203-4 . en.
• Book: Wimbush . Vincent L. . Paul, the Worldly Ascetic: Response to the World and Self-Understanding according to I Corinthians 7 . 2012 . Wipf and Stock Publishers . 978-1-61097-963-4 . en.
• Book: Wimbush . Vincent L. . White Men's Magic: Scripturalization as Slavery . 2014 . Oxford University Press . 978-0-19-934439-0 . en.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Vincent Wimbush CV . 2019 . Institute for Signifying Scriptures . 14 April 2020.
2. Web site: Vincent Wimbush, NT . 23 May 2013. Claremont Graduate University . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20130523200257/http://www.cgu.edu/pages/1055.asp . 23 May 2013. 14 April 2020.
3. Web site: Director . 9 July 2016 . Institute for Signifying Scriptures . en . 14 April 2020.
4. Web site: Brown . Michael Joseph . The Blackening of the Bible: The Aims of African American Biblical Scholarship . . 14 April 2020.
5. Enis . Larry L. . 3 November 2016 . Biblical Interpretation Among African-American New Testament Scholars . Currents in Research . 4 . 1 . 57–82 . 10.1177/1476993X05055640 . 144564049.