TY - BOOK AU - Callahan,Allen Dwight TI - The talking book: African Americans and the Bible SN - 9780300137873 (electronic bk.) AV - BS521.2 .C35 2006eb U1 - 220.089/96073 22 PY - 2006/// CY - New Haven PB - Yale University Press KW - Bible KW - Black interpretations KW - History KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc KW - Afrocentrism KW - Religious aspects KW - Christianity KW - African Americans KW - Religion KW - Electronic books KW - BIBLES KW - General KW - bisacsh KW - RELIGION KW - Biblical Reference KW - Bijbel KW - gtt KW - Interpretatie KW - Negers KW - Verenigde Staten KW - რელიგია-- KW - ბიბლია N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-273) and indexes; The talking book -- The poison book -- The good book -- Exile -- Exodus -- Ethiopia -- Emmanuel N2 - The Bible has profoundly influenced African Americans throughout their history. This wide-ranging book is the first to explore the African American experience of the Bible from a variety of perspectives. Connecting biblical stories and images to the music, politics, religion, and arts and letters of African Americans, the book demonstrates the centrality of the Bible in black culture, both popular and highbrow. African Americans first came to the Bible under the yoke of slavery. The Bible was not read but heard, and its stories became first a source of songs, spirituals, and hollers, and later, after the Civil War, a powerful motivation for learning to read. Allen Callahan traces the Bible culture that developed during and following enslavement. He identifies the most important biblical images for African Americans - Exile, Exodus, Ethiopia, and Emmanuel - and discusses their recurrence and their role in the formation of a collective identity and sense of justice. With insights into the deeply interwoven histories of African Americans and the Bible, the author guides his readers toward a deeper appreciation of both UR - http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=204484 ER -