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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... descendants have taken the texts of the Bible in every sense of the word : embraced them , endured them , seized them , stolen them , caught them , and captured them . African - American politicians have always flavored their rhetoric ...
... descendants rule is eventually overrun by a succes- sion of foreign empires even as it collapses from the force of its internal corruption . The insightful national pundits who saw it all coming — the prophets ― go unheeded , and their ...
... descendants discerned something in the Bible that was neither at the center of their ancestral cultures nor in evidence in their hostile American home: a warrant for justice in this world. They found woven in the texts of the Bible a ...
... 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 seemed to condemn Africans the poison book 25.
... descendants to slavery because they were slaves . THE CURSE Phillis Wheatley , the first African - American woman to publish a book of poetry in English , reflected on her abduction from the land of her nativity in her poem , " On Being ...
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5 Exodus | 83 |
6 Ethiopia | 138 |
7 Emmanuel | 185 |
Postscript | 240 |
Notes | 247 |
Subject Index | 275 |
Scripture Index | 284 |