The Talking Book: African Americans and the BibleYale University Press, 2008 M10 1 - 295 páginas A striking narrative of the Bible’s central role in African-American history from the early days of slavery to the present The Talking Book casts the Bible as the central character in a vivid portrait of black America, tracing the origins of African-American culture from slavery’s secluded forest prayer meetings to the bright lights and bold style of today’s hip-hop artists. The Bible has profoundly influenced African Americans throughout history. From a variety of perspectives this wide-ranging book is the first to explore the Bible’s role in the triumph of the black experience. Using the Bible as a foundation, African Americans shared religious beliefs, created their own music, and shaped the ultimate key to their freedom—literacy. Allen Callahan highlights the intersection of biblical images with African-American music, politics, religion, art, and literature. The author tells a moving story of a biblically informed African-American culture, identifying four major biblical images—Exile, Exodus, Ethiopia, and Emmanuel. He brings these themes to life in a unique African-American history that grows from the harsh experience of slavery into a rich culture that endures as one of the most important forces of twenty-first-century America. |
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... unto you : Therefore see what he will do with you , and confess him with your whole mouth , and praise the Lord of might , and extol the everlasting King : in the land of my captivity do I praise him , and declare his might and majesty ...
... unto me , " Thou hast desired to read and un- derstand this book , and to speak the language of it both in En- glish and in Dutch . I will therefore teach thee , and now read , " and then he taught me to read the first chapter of the ...
... unto his brethren” (9:25). On the slender thread of this obscure text exegetes spun out an interpretation claiming Ham's descendants as bearing an intergenerational curse of slavery. As early as ancient rabbinical com- mentary, Noah's ...
... unto the third and fourth generation.” This meant that Noah's curse could not have been in effect for more than one hundred years and so had long been null and void millennia before American proslavery advocates claimed it as a proof ...
... unto Christ.”21 Exhortations to servile obedience in the Pauline epistles would be- come the raw material for the catechesis of slaves in early-nineteenth- century plantation missions. “You ought to heared that preachin',” com- plained ...
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5 Exodus | 83 |
6 Ethiopia | 138 |
7 Emmanuel | 185 |
Postscript | 240 |
Notes | 247 |
Subject Index | 275 |
Scripture Index | 284 |
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The Talking Book: African Americans and the Bible Allen Dwight Callahan Sin vista previa disponible - 2006 |
The Talking Book: African Americans and the Bible Allen Dwight Callahan Sin vista previa disponible - 2006 |