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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... traditional parlance still used in some African- American churches , what preachers do with the Bible in their sermons is spoken of as " taking a text . ” American slaves and their descendants have taken the texts of the Bible in every ...
... traditions were woven. The characters and events of the Bible became the functional equivalent of the ancestors and ... traditional West African material culture. The themes of much of African- American folk sculpture, especially ...
... traditions that are stridently antimonarchical , and Israel's greatest king is a former shepherd boy moonlighting as a musician who becomes by turns a mercenary , a murderer , and a Peeping Tom . His dynasty is a disaster , and the ...
... traditional African- American prayer puts it; that the humble are exalted and exalted humbled; that the judgment of God would be the justice of the slave. From the periphery of a hostile world, slavery's children found that justice at ...
... traditional collection of fourteen books usually placed in the Bible between the Old and New Testaments . The Apocrypha's value had been disputed since the Reformation : Martin Luther had openly disdained them , translating them hastily ...
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5 Exodus | 83 |
6 Ethiopia | 138 |
7 Emmanuel | 185 |
Postscript | 240 |
Notes | 247 |
Subject Index | 275 |
Scripture Index | 284 |