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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... faith for oneself, it required that one read that sacred script for oneself. The open, public preaching of Evangelicals was inclusive in the ex- treme. The social unit of measurement for the Evangelical preacher was neither the church ...
... faith, “in some cases without any active involvement of white missionaries or masters whatso- ever.”13 Some white Evangelicals balked at the notion of a black pastorate: a Presbyterian leader advised his church that slave preachers ...
... 5 It was on the basis of biblical claims that the erstwhile master of John Jea, a slave in eighteenth-century Dutch New York manumitted following his public confession of the Christian faith , sought to the poison book 23.
African Americans and the Bible Allen Dwight Callahan. his public confession of the Christian faith , sought to keep his former slave bound in both slavery and ignorance . " But my master strove to baffle me , " Jea later wrote in his ...
... faith is vain ; ye are yet in your sins . Then they also which are fallen asleep in Christ are perished . If in this life only we have hope in Christ , we are of all men most miserable ” ( 15 : 17–19 ) . Lee undermines the force of ...
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5 Exodus | 83 |
6 Ethiopia | 138 |
7 Emmanuel | 185 |
Postscript | 240 |
Notes | 247 |
Subject Index | 275 |
Scripture Index | 284 |