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1 online resource (163 pages) |
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Library of New Testament studies ; 379 |
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T & T Clark library of biblical studies |
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Library of New Testament studies ; 379.
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T & T Clark library of biblical studies.
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| Contents |
Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; CHAPTER 1 FREDERICK DOUGLASS, BIBLE READER; Biblical Studies: An On-going Critique; African Americans in the Guild of Biblical Studies; Cultural Interpretation: A Review and Critique; Moving from Silence to Darkness; Reading "Darkness": A Theoretical Model of Marronage; To Read "Darkness": Frederick Douglass as Exemplum; CHAPTER 2 FREDERICK DOUGLASS, "DARKNESS READER"; A Very Brief Biography; Is Douglass "Dark" Enough?; The Language of Religion; "First Pure, then Peaceable: The choice of Jas 3:17; Formation or Home-Building and the Bible |
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CHAPTER 3 REDEFINING "RELIGION": DOUGLASS'S ABOLITIONIST SPEECHES AND JAMES 3:17Oratory and Orientation; The Dimensions of Home: Frederick Douglass and Jas 3:17; "American Slavery, American Religion, and the Free Church of Scotland"; Structural, Textual, and Ideational Aspects; Rhetoric and Signification; Other Formative Uses of Jas 3:17 in Douglass's Abolitionist Speeches; "The Fourth of July" and Jas 3:17; "John Brown" and Jas 3:17; The Language of Formation: Further Considerations; CHAPTER 4 "FRIENDSHIP WITH THE [Omitted] IS ENMITY WITH GOD": "DARKNESS READING" AND THE EPISTLE OF JAMES |
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Reading "Darkness," Reading JamesA Brief Overview of the Epistle; James as Re-form[ul]ation; Intertextuality and "Scripturalizing" in James; Signification and Other Rhetorical Moves in James; "Darkness Reading" and Jas 3:17; The Contours of the Pericope: Formal and Structural Considerations; Re-form[ul]ation and Jas 3:13-18; Intertextuality in Jas 3:13-18; Signification, Rhetoric and Jas 3:13-18; James and Darkness: Preliminary Conclusions; CHAPTER 5 TAKING AN "ELL": READING, DARKNESS, AND RESISTANCE; A "Reading" Lesson; "Reading" as Resistance; "Scriptures": The Norms of "America." |
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Evangelical Christianity and the Myth of America"Taking an Ell": "Reading" and "Darkness"; Why did Douglass "Read" James?; CHAPTER 6 "READING DARKNESS" AND "BIBLICAL STUDIES"; "Reading Darkness" as "Changing the 'Subject' "; Appendix; Notes; Bibliography; Index of Ancient Sources; Index of Authors/Subjects; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; J; K; L; M; P; R; S; T; W |
| Summary |
In 2001, Continuum published the extensive collected papers from African Americans and the Bible, an interdisciplinary conference held at Union Theological Seminary, NYC. In the collection''s introduction, Vincent L. Wimbush issued a challenge to take seriously those who ""read darkness, "" and to consider what it is they are doing when they read the Bible as ""scripture."" Wimbush''s focus on ""darkness readers, "" both within and outside of the African diaspora, breaks open the discourse around the nature, meaning, and importance of the Bible. By following the lead of ""darkness readers, "" th |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 134-142) and indexes |
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Print version record |
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Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895
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| SUBJECT |
Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895 fast |
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Bible. James -- Criticism, interpretation, etc
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Bible. James -- Black interpretations
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Bible. James fast |
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Light and darkness in the Bible.
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Slavery -- Biblical teaching
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Slavery -- United States -- History.
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African Americans -- Religion.
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RELIGION -- Biblical Studies -- New Testament.
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RELIGION -- Biblical Studies -- Paul's Letters.
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African Americans -- Religion
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Black interpretations of sacred works
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Light and darkness in the Bible
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Slavery
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Slavery -- Biblical teaching
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United States
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780567002396 |
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056700239X |
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