Excavating Exodus - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Excavating Exodus write by Joshua Laurence Cohen. This book was released on 2021-04-01. Excavating Exodus available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Excavating Exodus analyzes adaptations of Exodus in novels, newspapers, and speeches from the antebellum period to the Civil Rights era. Although Exodus has perennially served to mobilize resistance to oppression, Black writers have radically reinterpreted its meaning over the past two centuries. Changing interpretations of Moses’ story reflect evolving conceptions of racial identity, religious authority, gender norms, political activism, and literary form. Black writers transformed Moses from a paragon of race loyalty into an avatar of authoritarianism. Excavating Exodus identifies a rhetorical tradition initiated by David Walker and carried on by Martin Delany and Frances Harper that treats Moses’ loyalty to his fellow Hebrews as his defining characteristic. By the twentieth century, however, a more skeptical group of writers, including Zora Neale Hurston, Ralph Ellison, and William Melvin Kelley, associated Moses with overbearing charismatic authority. This book traces the transition from Walker, who treated Moses as the epitome of self-sacrifice, to Kelley, who considered Moses a flawed model of leadership and a threat to individual self-reliance. By asking how Moses became a touchstone for notions of racial belonging, Excavating Exodus illuminates how Black intellectuals reinvented the Mosaic model of charismatic male leadership.
The God Who Makes Himself Known
The God Who Makes Himself Known - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The God Who Makes Himself Known write by W. Ross Blackburn. This book was released on 2012-05-24. The God Who Makes Himself Known available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Countering scholarly tendencies to fragment the text over theological difficulties, this New Studies in Biblical Theology volume contends that Exodus should be read as a unified whole, and that an appreciation of its missionary theme in its canonical context is of great help in dealing with the difficulties that the book poses.
The Construction of Exodus Identity in Ancient Israel
The Construction of Exodus Identity in Ancient Israel - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Construction of Exodus Identity in Ancient Israel write by Linda M. Stargel. This book was released on 2018-05-22. The Construction of Exodus Identity in Ancient Israel available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Collective identity creates a sense of “us-ness” in people. It may be fleeting and situational or long-lasting and deeply ingrained. Competition, shared belief, tragedy, or a myriad of other factors may contribute to the formation of such group identity. Even people detached from one another by space, anonymity, or time, may find themselves in a context in which individual self-concept is replaced by a collective one. How is collective identity, particularly the long-lasting kind, created and maintained? Many literary and biblical studies have demonstrated that shared stories often lie at the heart of it. This book examines the most repeated story of the Hebrew Bible—the exodus story—to see how it may have functioned to construct and reinforce an enduring collective identity in ancient Israel. A tool based on the principles of the social identity approach is created and used to expose identity construction at a rhetorical level. The author shows that exodus stories are characterized by recognizable language and narrative structures that invite ongoing collective identification.
The Gospel of John Marrant
The Gospel of John Marrant - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Gospel of John Marrant write by Alphonso F. Saville IV IV. This book was released on 2024-07-26. The Gospel of John Marrant available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Reverend John Marrant (1755–91) was North America’s first Black ordained minister and one of America’s earliest Black authors and preachers. In The Gospel of John Marrant, Alphonso F. Saville IV examines how Protestantism and West African indigenous religious practices deeply informed his life and ministry. Saville follows Marrant from his time evangelizing the Cherokee in Georgia to meeting with Black Freemasons in Boston to engaging with diasporic communities along the Eastern Seaboard and in England. Using the Black folk magic tradition of conjure as a lens for understanding Marrant’s religious imagination, Saville outlines the importance of Africana religious and cultural themes, symbols, and cosmologies in the biblical interpretation and ritual culture of early Black North American Christian communities. Marrant’s life and work, Saville contends, reveal the diverse religious cultures that contributed to the formation of African American Christianity and its evolution into a prominent institution during the colonial and early history of the United States. In so doing, he demonstrates the need to recenter both religion and Africa in the study of African American cultural and intellectual history.
Exodus as Postcolonial Narrative
Exodus as Postcolonial Narrative - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Exodus as Postcolonial Narrative write by . This book was released on 2007. Exodus as Postcolonial Narrative available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
