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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... divine oracles ; and sinners would celebrate its saints . As both curse and cure , slavery's chil- dren would distill antidotes for the toxic texts of the Bible and make those texts their own . It remained , however , for them to make ...
... divine judgment eschewed the false and predictable categories of human preference — caste, color, and class — only those who met the rigorous criteria of righteousness would be allowed to enter the heavenly habitations. To walk the ...
... Divine judgment could even cleave through the faithful and drive a wedge between saints and sinners on the same pew . Though they singers expected that they would not fall under judgment , they apparently never expected that they could ...
... Jeremiah's oracle promises that God will write a new Bible in the human heart . That eternal word , that divine law , was justice . The crimson thread of justice winds through the history of slavery's children , and THE GOOD BOOK 47.
... divine worship as unfettered service to the God who had liberated Hebrew slaves en masse from Egypt . Even after Emancipation , African Americans continued to read the Exo- dus as promise of their future deliverance . In interpretations ...
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5 Exodus | 83 |
6 Ethiopia | 138 |
7 Emmanuel | 185 |
Postscript | 240 |
Notes | 247 |
Subject Index | 275 |
Scripture Index | 284 |