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Record Nr.

UNINA9910464283503321

Autore

Aymer Margaret P.

Titolo

First pure, then peaceable : Frederick Douglass, darkness, and the Epistle of James / / Margaret P. Aymer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : T & T Clark, , 2008

©2007

ISBN

0-567-00239-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (163 p.)

Collana

Library of New Testament studies ; ; 379

T & T Clark library of biblical studies

Disciplina

227/.9106092

Soggetti

Light and darkness in the Bible

Slavery - Biblical teaching

Slavery - United States - History

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages [134]-142) and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

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

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



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"

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

Sommario/riassunto

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



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910567398503321

Autore

Millin, Aubin Louis <1759-1818>

Titolo

À travers la Calabre napoléonienne / journal d'Aubin-Louis Millin ; dessins de Franz Ludwig Catel ; [sous la direction de] Corinne Le Bitouzé et Gennaro Toscano

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Paris, : Le Passage, : BnF Éditions, 2021

ISBN

978-2-7177-2877-4

Descrizione fisica

2 v. : ill. ; 21 cm ; 27 cm

Locazione

FLFBC

Collocazione

914.57 MILA 01 (1)

914.57 MILA 01 (2)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Francese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

v.1: Journal de voyage de Naples à Reggio de Calabre v.2: Dessins du Royaume de Naples