The Bible and African Americans: A Brief History

Vincent L. Wimbush

thg 1 2003 · Fortress Press

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The unique encounter of African Americans with the Bible has shaped centuries of spirituality and social engagement of a whole continent. Highly respected biblical scholar Vincent Wimbush here outlines the five phases of African American reading and shows how the Bible offered a language-world through which Africans Americans have negotiated the strange land into which they were thrust.

Giới thiệu tác giả

Vincent L. Wimbush is a transdisciplinary scholar of scriptures, former president of the Society for Biblical Literature, and the founding director of The Institute for Signifying Scriptures. He is the author or editor of more than twelve books, including Black Flesh Matters: Essays in Runagate Interpretation (2022); White Men's Magic: Scripturalization as Slavery(2012), MisReading America: Scriptures and Difference (2013), and Theorizing Scriptures (2008).