(1978) from Yale Divinity School, and an AM (1981) and Ph.D. (1983) from Harvard University in the study of religions, with a focus on the New Testament.
He taught at a number of institutions, including Union Theological Seminary (1991–2003) and Claremont Graduate University (2003–2014).
[1] Wimbush is a pioneer in the field of African American biblical hermeneutics.
Instead, scholars are to refocus the discipline within the context of North America, with a particular emphasis on the African-American experience.
[4] This would result in a hermeneutic that is much more informed by "marginality, liminality, exile, pain, trauma.