READING THE BIBLE FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF BLACK WOMEN:

CONTRIBUTIONS FOR OVERCOMING RACISM

Abstract

A peripheric thinking called Black Feminist Hermeneutics arises from the spiritual experience of black women in  the diaspora as a biblical-theological  response to the historical experience of racism, sexism, and classism. Its  fundamental task is, therefore, to reveal the conditioning of classic biblical  interpretations by Eurocentric and  patriarchal logic and, above all, to reveal the spiritual protagonism of black women in the Bible. Through this interpretative exercise, it is seeks to contribute to the deconstruction of the  Eurocentric imaginary that continues to  legitimize domination and anti-black  racism and, thus, to cooperate for the  reconstruction of a depatriarchalized and anti-racist imaginary. The method consists of bibliographic review and the  hermeneutic analysis of the biblical text.