We Are All Witnesses: Toward Disruptive and Creative Biblical Interpretation - Paperback

by Mitzi J. Smith (Author), Michael Willett Newheart (Author)

We Are All Witnesses is a remarkable, sassy, creative, disruptive, and deeply personal textbook. It is like no other text on biblical interpretation. Smith and Newheart have produced a groundbreaking milestone book about how to do biblical interpretation that prioritizes justice and the reader's context. It is both memoir and metatestimony! The layperson, college students, and seminary students will find this book accessible. It is indeed creative, witty, and wayward!

Author Biography

Mitzi J. Smith is J. Davison Philips Professor of New Testament at Columbia Theological Seminary and Professor Extraordinarius at the University of South Africa, College of the Humanities, Institute of Gender Studies. She co-edited Bitter the Chastening Rod (2022); co-authored Toward Decentering the New Testament (2018); and authored Womanist Sass and Talk Back: Social (In)Justice, Intersectionality and Biblical Interpretation (2018).



Michael Willett Newheart is professor emeritus of New Testament at Howard University School of Divinity, and interim ministry specialist, American Baptist Churches of the USA. He is the author of "My Name Is Legion" The Story and Soul of the Gerasene Demoniac (2004).