LEADER 04648nam 2200625 450 001 9910464283503321 005 20170821181228.0 010 $a0-567-00239-X 035 $a(CKB)3710000000112980 035 $a(EBL)1749965 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001235503 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11679994 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001235503 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11230943 035 $a(PQKB)11643667 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1749965 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000112980 100 $a20080723h20082007 uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aFirst pure, then peaceable $eFrederick Douglass, darkness, and the Epistle of James /$fMargaret P. Aymer 210 1$aLondon ;$aNew York :$cT & T Clark,$d2008. 210 4$dİ2007 215 $a1 online resource (163 p.) 225 1 $aLibrary of New Testament studies ;$v379 225 1 $aT & T Clark library of biblical studies 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-567-03307-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages [134]-142) and indexes. 327 $aCover; 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 327 $aCHAPTER 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 327 $aReading "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" 327 $aEvangelical 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 330 $aIn 2001, Continuum published the extensive collected papers from African Americans and the Bible, an interdisciplinary conference held at Union Theological Seminary, NYC. In the collection''s introduction, Vincent L. Wimbush issued a challenge to take seriously those who ""read darkness,"" and to consider what it is they are doing when they read the Bible as ""scripture."" Wimbush''s focus on ""darkness readers,"" both within and outside of the African diaspora, breaks open the discourse around the nature, meaning, and importance of the Bible. By following the lead of ""darkness readers,"" th 410 0$aLibrary of New Testament studies ;$v379. 410 0$aT & T Clark library of biblical studies. 606 $aLight and darkness in the Bible 606 $aSlavery$xBiblical teaching 606 $aSlavery$zUnited States$xHistory 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aLight and darkness in the Bible. 615 0$aSlavery$xBiblical teaching. 615 0$aSlavery$xHistory. 676 $a227/.9106092 700 $aAymer$b Margaret P.$0898760 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910464283503321 996 $aFirst pure, then peaceable$92007985 997 $aUNINA