The Talking Book: African Americans and the BibleYale University Press, 01/10/2008 - 295 páginas 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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... stories, and all pedigrees, was to be found in the Garden of Eden and its first evicted tenants. In one African-American folktale, Adam requests that the Lord give him an extra measure of physical strength to overpower his contentious ...
... story of Cain's crime: “The first man what the Lord made, been named Adam. The first woman been named Eve. They had two children, Cain and Abel. The ma and the pa of them children was black, was colored folks.” Cain, “a bad Negro ...
... stories as a call to holy war on the Peculiar Institution, and the nineteenth century opened with some Christian slaves giving earnest heed to that call. As W. E. B. Du Bois would later eloquently put it in his essay “Faith of Our ...
... story of the Exodus has been the most influential of all biblical narratives among American slaves, who came to see divine worship as unfettered service to the God who had liberated Hebrew slaves en masse from Egypt. Even after ...
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5 Exodus | 83 |
6 Ethiopia | 138 |
7 Emmanuel | 185 |
Postscript | 240 |
Notes | 247 |
Subject Index | 275 |
Scripture Index | 284 |
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