In Tongues of Mortals and Angels

Eric D. Barreto is Weyerhaeuser associate professor of New Testament at Princeton Theological Seminary.Jacob D. Myers is assistant professor of homiletics at Columbia Theological Seminary.Thelathia “Nikki” Young is associate professor of women’s and gender studies and religion at Bucknell University.

• Chapter 1: Spirit Speech: Acts 2:1–36 by Eric D. BarretoChapter 2: Bold Speech: Acts 4:1–22 by Jacob D. MyersChapter 3: Prophetic Speech: Acts 10:34–48 by Thelathia Nikki YoungChapter 4: Strange Speech: Acts 17:16–34 by Eric D. BarretoChapter 5: Baptismal Speech: Acts 18:24–19:8 by Jacob D. MyersChapter 6: Wise Speech: 1 Corinthians 2:1–16 by Jacob D. MyersChapter 7: Loving Speech: 1 Corinthians 13:1–13 by Thelathia Nikki Young

Amid the glut of words and din of speech in our round-the-clock cyclone of news, talk, and (mis/dis)information, how do we speak authentically with and for God, from the Bible, to our contemporary social and political contexts? This book models a fresh dialogical, intersectional, and interdisciplinary approach to this challenging issue. Accordingly, the identities of the three collaborating authors matter. Now well into their professional careers, they engage in lively, candid conversation, befitting their friendship dating back to overlapping periods of doctoral study at Emory University. Yet they specialize in different areas: Barreto in New Testament studies, Myers in homiletics, and Young in ethics; and they have different ethnic and sexual orientations.... Each contributor also speaks with her/his distinctive academic accent: Barreto in the language of historical and literary biblical criticism, informed by ideological approaches such as post-colonialism; Myers in the idiom of deconstructive, postmodern theorists like Foucault, Derrida, and Irigaray; and Young mediating Black and/or queer voices such as Lorde and Heyward. The result is a fresh, edgy, stimulating conversation worth eavesdropping