Mitzi J. Smith is the J. Davison Philips Professor of New Testament at Columbia Theological Seminary in Decatur, GA.
Angela N. Parker is assistant professor of New Testament and Greek at Mercer University's McAfee School of Theology in Atlanta, GA.
Ericka S. Dunbar Hill is visiting professor of Hebrew Bible at Payne Theological Seminary in Wilberforce, OH.

Part I. Remembering the Past, Laboring in the Present, and Shaping a Hopeful Future

1. "The Hill We Climb": Introduction ?? Mitzi J. Smith, Angela N. Parker and Ericka Dunbar Hill
2. A Eulogy for Cain Hope Felder ?? Brian K. Blount
3. Zoom-ing in on a Watershed Moment in Biblical Interpretation ?? William H. Myers

Part II. God's Black(ened) People in the World-Thugs, Slaves and Criminals

4. God's Only Begotten Thug ?? Allen Dwight Callahan
5. Abolitionist Messiah: A Man Named Jesus Born of a Doule ?? Mitzi J. Smith
6. Reading with the Enslaved: Placing Human Bondage at the Center of the Early Christian Story ?? Emerson B. Powery
7. "I am a Human": Racializing Assemblages and Criminalized Egyptianness in Acts 21:31-39 ?? Jeremy L. Williams
8. The Terror of White Hermeneutics: Black and Enslaved Bodies Interpreted in the Context of Whiteness ?? Marcus W. Shields

Part III. Africana Hermeneutical Strategies, Pedagogy, Translation, and #BLM

9. Hoodoo Blues and the Formulation of Hermeneutical