Biblical Outlaws

“By honoring the humanity of these biblical outcasts, Professor Pinn fearlessly draws liberating truth from the margins. Biblical Outlaws will reshape your reading of the Bible and profoundly expand your moral imagination.”—Brad R. Braxton, president and professor of public theology, Chicago Theological Seminary “In Biblical Outlaws, Anthony Pinn perfects what he has pioneered: liberation atheism and emancipatory humanism. By brilliantly rereading biblical passages through his unbelieving lens, he gives believable voice to figures who have been unjustly text-communicated and unfairly demonized as enemies of the faith. Pinn challenges progressive believers to confront our complicity in the oppression we claim to oppose, and to restore the moral stature and theological usefulness of characters whose legacies are wrongly tarnished.”—Michael Eric Dyson “Pinn breathes new life and new dimension into millennia-old stories in this nuanced and thought-provoking exploration of the very human characters who play a part in these divine dramas.”—Sasha Sagan, author of For Small Creatures Such as We: Rituals for Finding Meaning in Our Unlikely World “Focusing on five biblical figures and providing a humanist assessment of their respective narratives, Pinn’s provocative and timely book presents these storied characters in ways that are both complex and compelling.”—Juan Floyd-Thomas, Vanderbilt University