Author: Emerson B. Powery

Emerson B. Powery is Professor of Biblical Studies at Messiah College. He is the coeditor of True to Our Native Land: An African American New Testament Commentary and the author of Jesus Reads Scripture: The Function of Jesus' Use of Scripture in the Synoptic Gospels and Mark in the Immersion Bible Studies series. Powery also serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Biblical Literature and the Common English Bible.

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The Genesis of Liberation

Biblical Interpretation in the Antebellum Narratives of the Enslaved

By Emerson B. Powery

Considering that the Bible was used to justify and perpetuate African American enslavement, why would it be given such authority? In this fascinating volume, Powery and Sadler explore how the Bible became a source of liberation for enslaved African ...

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The Westminster Study Bible

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition with the Deuterocanonical/Apocryphal Books

By Stacy Davis, Mary F. Foskett, Emerson B. Powery, Brent A. Strawn

The Westminster Study Bible (WSB) is the first entirely new study Bible to utilize the recently released New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition.Soon to be an essential tool for all religious studies contexts, The Westminster Study Bible includ...

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