The Talking Book: African Americans and the BibleYale University Press, 01/10/2008 - 295 من الصفحات 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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... death on the cross; they claimed for themselves and their hearers dramatic, direct access to God's grace. These preachers proclaimed a divine salvation needed by all and available to all, boldly pitching their Gospel in the public ...
... death he rejoiced over Nineveh” (14:15). Nineveh, the evil capital of the Israelites' Assyrian conquerors, had escaped judgment in the book of Jonah: there the Ninevites repented of their evil in response to Jonah's preaching. Nineveh ...
... death of his wife in childbirth, insists it is fitting that the name for the newborn girl that he has selected by blind bibliomancy is the name of Pilate, the man who oaciated at Jesus's execution. Though he “could not read a word ...
... death, and its text could become noxious. The Talking Book was also a poison book. Toxic texts in the Old Testament seemed to condemn Africans and their descendants to slavery because they were Africans. Toxic texts in the New Testament ...
... death, nor life, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, should be able to separate me from the love of Christ Jesus, our Lord.'”42 Stewart's vocation as a lay preacher of Christian virtue met the poison ...
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5 Exodus | 83 |
6 Ethiopia | 138 |
7 Emmanuel | 185 |
Postscript | 240 |
Notes | 247 |
Subject Index | 275 |
Scripture Index | 284 |