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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... biblical book of Jonah . The aged Tobit instructs his son Tobias to take his family and leave Nineveh “ because those things which the Prophet Jonah spake , shall surely come to pass " ( 14 : 8 ) . Afterward , “ God will have mercy on ...
... biblical exhortations to submission . James L. Belin , a Methodist minister in Murrells Inlet , South Carolina , began his four decades of mis- sionary labors among the slaves as early as 1819. In 1832 , less than a year after the Nat ...
... biblical literacy began with sponta- neous aural memorization and oral recall . Slaves mimicked what they heard in sermons from white preachers and readers , and in repeating what they heard they often improvised on it . J. Motte Alston ...
... biblical phrases and stories to spontaneously improvised songs raised in worship . It was through the human voice , then , and not the printed page , that the Bible came to inhabit the slave's inner world . The slaves ' Bible became ...
... biblical allusions that sug- gest familiarity with the text , their confused admixture notwithstanding . For the slaves , biblical revelation could be summarized by this paradox : the Bible was a closed book that the illiterate read to ...
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5 Exodus | 83 |
6 Ethiopia | 138 |
7 Emmanuel | 185 |
Postscript | 240 |
Notes | 247 |
Subject Index | 275 |
Scripture Index | 284 |