Publications

Dr. Jerkins' Published Works

“1-2 Thessalonians” in The New Testament in Color: A Multiethnic Commentary on the New Testament, ed. Esau McCaulley (Forthcoming).

“Man's Greatest Weapon” in No Man Left Behind: A 28-Day Devotional, ed. Timothy Jones (Forthcoming).


Black Lives Matter to Jesus: The Salvation of Black Life and All Life in Luke and Acts (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2021).


“The Dynamism of Blackness in An Ethiopian Story and Acts,” Perspectives in Religious Studies 46.3 (2019): 307–26


“Preparing for Doctoral Exams,” in Prepare, Succeed, Advance: A Guidebook for Getting a PhD in Biblical Studies and Beyond, Second. (Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock, 2019), 69–72.


“The Notion of Status in 1 Corinthians 6:9-10,” in Afrocentric Interpretations of Paul and the Pauline Tradition: Things That Black Scholars See That White Scholars Do Not See, ed. Thomas B. Slater (Lewiston, NY: Mellen Press, 2018), 135–58.