{"product_id":"9781978716148","title":"(re)Citing Diaspora as Scriptural Cartographies Sightings of the Black Atlantic and Story-Telling Difference before Reading","description":"\u003ch3\u003eScripturalization: Discourse, Formation, Power\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch1\u003e(re)Citing Diaspora as Scriptural Cartographies\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003ch2\u003eSightings of the Black Atlantic and Story-Telling Difference before Reading\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003ch3\u003eA. Francis Carter, Jr.\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003eReligion \/ Biblical Studies \/ General\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhat happens when disciplines that study diaspora are inclined to perceive knowledge derived from Black life as anachronism?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e How scholars write history and interpret early Christian texts is not neutral; they rehearse cartographies drawn by Enlightenment thinkers who treated linearity as the shape of human progress and the nation-state as its natural container. These inherited cartographies function as unquestioned scriptures that shape how interpreters reconstruct the past and read texts within those historical reconstructions. In this book, New Testament scholar A. Francis Carter Jr. centers diaspora as a prism to explore and intervene in hermeneutical theory. Through contextual readings, Carter exposes a disciplinary predisposition towards anti-Blackness incipient to Diaspora Studies. He then reorients the discourse and maps diaspora's etymological origins and biblical uses through a Black Atlantic cartographic framework - replacing sameness with differentness, linearity with polyvocality, and the erasure of Black life with its recognition as a site from which scripture, history, and diaspora become legible.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eA. Francis Carter, Jr. \u003c\/b\u003eis Assistant Professor of New Testament and early Christian literature and Director of Black Church Traditions and African American Faith-Life at Phillips Theological Seminary, USA.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublication Date: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e10 December 2026\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eBloomsbury Academic\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eImprint: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eT\u0026amp;T Clark\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eISBN-13: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e9781978716148\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eFormat: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eHardback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePage Count: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e320\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eWeight (oz): \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e16.0\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51223597711500,"sku":"9781978716148","price":108.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/getimage_36eb4b76-5271-4445-a701-afa3278f6495.jpg?v=1783078452","url":"https:\/\/fh90cf-fv.myshopify.com\/products\/9781978716148","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}