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Obery Hendricks, Ph.D. Print E-mail

Professor of Biblical Interpretation

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Educational Background

  • B.A. Rutgers University
  • M.Div. Princeton Theological Seminary
  • M.A. Princeton University
  • Ph.D. Princeton University

 

Religious Affiliation

  • African Methodist Episcopal Church

Monographs

Living Water: A Novel. New York: HarperCollins, 2003.

A Discourse of Domination: Class, Ideology and ‘the Jews’ in the Fourth Gospel New York: Peter Lang, 2003.

“The Gospel of John.” Annotated commentary in The New Oxford NRSV Annotated Bible. New York: Oxford, 2001.

“’I Am the Holy Dope Dealer’: The Problem with Gospel Music Today.” In Readings in African American Church Music and Worship, edited by James Abbington. Chicago: GLA, 2001.

“The Political Setting of Jesus’ Ministry.” In Pastor’s Manual of the AME Church for the 21st Century. Nashville: AMEC, 1999).

“Jesus and the Leper (Mk.1): A Radical Model for Inclusive Community.“ In Theological Reflections on Life in the Village. Washington, D.C: WMS, 1999.

Articles

“’I Am the Holy Dope Dealer’: The Problem with Gospel Music Today.” Journal of the Interdenominational Theological Center (Winter/Spring 2000).

“The Domestication of Martin Luther King.” The AME Review (April-June 1998): 51-59.

“Heresy.” Encyclopedia of Politics and Religion, edited by Robert Wuthnow (Washington, D.C.: Congressional Quarterly, 1998)

 

“Guerrilla Exegesis: ‘Struggle’ as a Scholarly Vocation: A Postmodern Approach to African American Biblical Interpretation.” Semeia 72 (1995): 73-90.

Journal of the Interdenominational Theological Center 22 (Fall, 1994): 92-109

“A Time to Laugh and a Time to Weep.” Liberation and Unity: A Lenten Booklet for 1991, edited by Michael Livingston, 23. Princeton: COCU, 1991.

The Babylonian Captivity of the Bible.” Testament (May, 1990): 5-8.

Reviews

“The Hand That Interprets Controls History.” Review of Stony the Road We Trod, Cain Hope Felder, ed. Sojourners (December, 1993): 46-47.

 

Review of Stony the Road We Trod, Cain H. Felder, ed., Koinonia (Fall, 1992): 235-239.

 

Monographs in Progress

An Ideology of Domination: A Socio-Rhetorical Study of the Use of Ioudaios in the Gospel of John. New York: Peter Lang, forthcoming 2005.

My Name is Legion: A Novel (working title), forthcoming 2006.

The Politics of Jesus: A Revolutionary Look at a Revolutionary Leader, forthcoming 2005.

Untitled sequel to Living Water, forthcoming 2007.