The genesis of liberation
Subtitle: biblical interpretation in the antebellum narratives of the enslaved
By: Emerson Powery, Rodney S. Sadler Jr
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Louisville, KY
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780664230531
Subjects: Religion; Bible; Biblical teaching; Black interpretations; African Americans; Liberty; History
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: The genesis of liberation: the function of the Bible in the freedom narrative; title: The Bible & the freedom narrative; title: The Sabbath & the freedom narrative; title: The origins of whiteness and the black (biblical) imagination; title: Reading 'Paul' with the formerly enslaved: emancipation from the "master's minister"; title: Summary and hermeneutical implications; title: Jesus Christ in the freedom narrative.