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Genesis of Liberation

Name: Genesis of Liberation
SKU: 9780664230531
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Biblical Interpretation in the Antebellum Narratives of the Enslaved

Emerson B. Powery, Rodney S. Sadler, Jr.

Genesis of Liberation

Biblical Interpretation in the Antebellum Narratives of the Enslaved

Emerson B. Powery, Rodney S. Sadler, Jr.

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Publisher: Westminster/John Knox Press,U.S.

ISBN: 9780664230531

Number of Pages: 272

Published: 18/04/2016

Width: 15.2 cm

Height: 22.9 cm

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Considering that the Bible was used to justify and perpetuate African American enslavement, why would it be given such authority? In this fascinating volume, Powery and Sadler explore how the Bible became a source of liberation for enslaved African Americans by analyzing its function in pre-Civil War freedom narratives. They explain the various ways in which enslaved African Americans interpreted the Bible and used it as a source for hope, empowerment, and literacy. The authors show that through their own engagement with the biblical text, enslaved African Americans found a liberating word. The Genesis of Liberation recovers the early history of black biblical interpretation and will help to expand understandings of African American hermeneutics.

Emerson B. Powery, Rodney S. Sadler, Jr.

Emerson B. Powery is Professor of Biblical Studies at Messiah College. He is the coeditor of True to Our Native Land: An African American New Testament Commentary and the author of Jesus Reads Scripture: The Function of Jesus' Use of Scripture in the Synoptic Gospels and Mark in the Immersion Bible Studies series. Powery also serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Biblical Literature and the Common English Bible. Rodney S. Sadler Jr. is Associate Professor of Bible at Union Presbyterian Seminary. He is the author of Can a Cushite Change His Skin? An Examination of Race, Ethnicity, and Othering in the Hebrew Bible and coeditor of The Africana Bible: Reading Israel's Scriptures from Africa and the African Diaspora. He also served as the managing editor of the African American Devotional Bible.