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Journal Article
The African American Bible: Bound in a Christian Nation
2017
Overview
There we see the ambivalence of this nation's Bible readers to the matter of black life-namely, that its import is far from sacrosanct according to America's hermeneutical posturing.6 In the Beginning At the crossroads of the \"genetic turn\" and the post-civil rights era, inclusion minded Americans began to profess that we are all just part of one race, the human race.7 The Christian Pop/Rock/Rap group called DC Talk (Decent Christian Talk) made the statement into a creed. [...]President James Madison likened slavery to America's \"original sin,\" but African Americans would long be made to sow the garden's seed without a taste of free will's fruits.10 One might grant that all humans come from an Edenic Africa, though in my reading of the African American Bible, there is a qualifying clause- a paraphrase of George Orwell's famous riff in Animal Farm: \"All humans are created equal, but some more equal than others.
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Society of Biblical Literature
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