04615nam 2200613 450 991078645510332120230721034728.00-567-00239-X(CKB)3710000000112980(EBL)1749965(SSID)ssj0001235503(PQKBManifestationID)11679994(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001235503(PQKBWorkID)11230943(PQKB)11643667(MiAaPQ)EBC1749965(EXLCZ)99371000000011298020080723h20082007 uy| 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrFirst pure, then peaceable Frederick Douglass, darkness, and the Epistle of James /Margaret P. AymerLondon ;New York :T & T Clark,2008.©20071 online resource (163 p.)Library of New Testament studies ;379T & T Clark library of biblical studiesDescription based upon print version of record.0-567-03307-4 Includes bibliographical references (pages [134]-142) and indexes.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 BibleCHAPTER 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 JAMESReading "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; WIn 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,"" thLibrary of New Testament studies ;379.T & T Clark library of biblical studies.Light and darkness in the BibleSlaveryBiblical teachingSlaveryUnited StatesHistoryLight and darkness in the Bible.SlaveryBiblical teaching.SlaveryHistory.227/.9106092Aymer Margaret P.1575668MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910786455103321First pure, then peaceable3852774UNINA