The Talking Book: African Americans and the BibleYale University Press, 2008 M10 1 - 295 pages 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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... Paul in an article that appeared in a collection of essays on slavery and bib- lical interpretation. The chapter on Exile elaborates on thinking reflected in essays I wrote treating the biblical figures Nehemiah and Ezekiel and in a ...
... Paul boasts that most of the people in the churches he counseled at Corinth had no pretensions to noble birth or bearing: nevertheless they shall be judges in a divine tribunal at the end of the age. Later in a theological tour de force, ...
... Paul's dictum that God " has made of one blood all nations " in support of the full humanity of African Americans . Both men enjoyed the precious competence of literacy that made its pages available to them . But whereas Garnet was ...
... Paul in the New, the Bible sanctions slavery. The Bible's founda- tional narrative, however, is an account of the divine deliverance of slaves and the divine destruction of their masters. The Bible's regulations for the conduct of holy ...
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Contents
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3 The Good Book | 41 |
4 Exile | 49 |
5 Exodus | 83 |
6 Ethiopia | 138 |
7 Emmanuel | 185 |
Postscript | 240 |
Notes | 247 |
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