ABSTRACT
I have thought long and hard about how to effectively communicate not only what the ISS has meant to my own development but what it has meant and means in the landscape of the study of scriptures. In my probing, I trace my own journey from a graduate student research assistant with the African Americans and Bible Project at Union Theological Seminary in New York City, to assistant director of ISS, to co-primary investigator on an interdisciplinary collaborative research project involving twelve scholars at Howard University in Washington, DC, committed to a study of the holy Odu, the sacred scriptures of the Ifa/Orisha tradition of West African origin.
