Not Wanting a Thing to Be the Thing
An African American Woman Biblical Scholar's Stroke Memoir
Published on 17. June 2025
Book
Paperback/Softback
186 pages
979-8-3852-3641-1 (ISBN)
Description
Not Wanting a Thing to Be the Thing is the first stroke memoir written by a Black woman biblical scholar. Smith's story is her mother's story, and it is not. It is the story of other stroke survivors, and it is not. It is a unique telling of the civil war that erupts in her body. It is a journey of not knowing, awareness, survival, fragmentation, discovery, and recovery. Smith's story is inspiring, amazing, brilliant, funny, thought-provoking, and revelatory. She has a gift for bringing her readers into each space to see what she sees and feel what she feels.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 11 mm
Weight
290 gr
ISBN-13
979-8-3852-3641-1 (9798385236411)
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Additional editions
Mitzi J. Smith
Not Wanting a Thing to Be the Thing
An African American Woman Biblical Scholar's Stroke Memoir
E-Book
06/2025
Wipf and Stock Publishers
€18.49
Available for download
Persons
Mitzi J. Smith is the J. Davison Philips Professor of New Testament at Columbia Theological Seminary in Decatur, Georgia. She has authored and edited ten books. Smith is currently completing a book on the Gospel of Luke and is the host and producer of the Beyond the Womanist Classroom podcast.