This is a comprehensive and challenging look at the significance of the Bible for Blacks and the importance of Blacks in the Bible. Troubling Biblical Waters provides critical resources for studying the Bible, especially in relation to Black religion and the Church. Felder pays particular attention to issues of racial pluralism in the Bible, Old and New Testament mandates of social justice, and other biblical teachings relating to the human family and its survival. Sound, detailed scholarship and organization offer a greater racial balance and cor- rective to biblical hermeneutics and their historiographic assumptions.

Cain H. Felder's Troubling Biblical Waters is a landmark study of the oft- neglected issues of race, class, and family in the Bible. Already the most definitive resource of its kind, it is destined to change forever the way scholars, teachers, preachers, and all serious students of the Bible reflect upon, teach, and preach biblical narratives on these subjects. It will doubtless remain the standard reference work par excellence on these issues for years to come."