Slater, Thomas Bowie

Thomas B. Slater is Professor of New Testament Language & Literature in the James and Carolyn McAfee School of Theology, Mercer University. Prof. Slater has a D.Min in Christian Education from Perkins School of Theology, Southern Methodist University, and also a PhD in New Testament studies from King’s College London, the University of London. He has published Christ and Community in the Library of New Testament Studies series (T&T Clark) and Ephesians in the Smyth & Helwys commentary series. He has over thirty scholarly publications in such venues as Biblica, Journal of Biblical Literature, New Testament Studies and the New Interpreters Dictionary of the Bible. Dr. Slater is also an Elder in full connection in the Georgia North Region of the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church.

AFROCENTRIC INTERPRETATIONS OF JESUS AND THE GOSPEL TRADITIONS: Things Black Scholars See That White Scholars Overlook

2015 1-4955-0282-1
This collection of essays is an Afrocentric examination into the gospels and Jesus-studies by persons of African descent. The study encourages us to reassess our commonly held beliefs about biblical interpretation by offering us a fresh point of view and different cultural perspective than those that have been developed by traditional Eurocentric research. This work challenges our presuppositions about the Bible and biblical interpretation.

AFROCENTRIC INTERPRETATIONS OF PAUL AND THE PAULINE TRADITION:Things That Black Scholars See That White Scholars Do Not See

2018 1-4955-0687-8
This collection of essays is an Afrocentric examination into Pauline-studies by persons of African descent. The study encourages us to reassess our commonly held beliefs about biblical interpretation by offering us a fresh point of view and different cultural perspective than those that have been developed by traditional Eurocentric research. This work challenges our presuppositions about the Bible and biblical interpretation

AFROCENTRIC INTERPRETATIONS OF THE NEW TESTAMENT EPISTLES HEBREWS, JAMES, JUDE, PETER, JOHN, AND REVELATION: THINGS THAT BLACK SCHOLARS SEE THAT WHITE SCHOLARS DO NOT

2021 1-4955-0923-0
This book provides Afrocentric interpretive studies by esteemed author Dr. Thomas B. Slater. A Foreword by Jerry Sumney is included.

The Son of Man in Second Temple Judaism: Reviewing and Advancing the Scholarly Debate

2017 1-4955-0621-5
The main argument of this monograph is that the Hebrew Bible (HB) and the extant Jewish pseudepigraphal writings consistently distinguished between generic expressions (e.g., “son of man”/“sons of men” [Ezek 2:1] and, descriptions of heavenly beings in human-likeness (e.g., “one like a son of man” [Dan 7:13]; “someone who looked like a human” [Dan 8:15]). Any investigation of the New Testament (NT) “son of man” traditions must take these distinctions into account.