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Bitter the Chastening Rod follows in the footsteps of the first
collection of African American biblical interpretation, Stony the
Road We Trod (1991). Nineteen Africana biblical scholars contribute
cutting-edge essays reading Jesus, criminalization, the enslaved,
and whitened interpretations of the enslaved. They present
pedagogical strategies for teaching, hermeneutics, and bible
translation that center Black Lives Matter and black culture.
Biblical narratives, news media, and personal stories intertwine in
critical discussions of black rage, protest, anti-blackness, and
mothering in the context of black precarity.
"The Africana Bible" is a one-volume collection of multicultural
and interdisciplinary perspectives on every book in the Hebrew
Bible. It opens a critical window onto the world of interpretation
on the African continent and in the multiple diasporas of African
peoples.
This book addresses the claim that an American antebellum era
anti-African reading of "the curse of Canaan" story originated in
rabbinic literature. By tracing the curse of Canaan's history of
interpretation from the beginning of the Common Era to 1865, with
particular emphasis on the neglected medieval period, this work
examines this long-held false claim. Although Jewish readings of
the curse of Canaan appear in medieval Christian commentaries, no
Jewish references to skin color are repeated in Christian exegesis.
Therefore, the book argues that the anti-African antebellum reading
develops in response both to abolitionism and the biblical text's
establishment of a social hierarchy that divides humankind into
slaves and masters. The pro-slavery reading is an extension of
Christian allegorical exegesis of the curse of Canaan, in which
Shem, Ham, and Japheth represented different groups of people
depending upon the interpreter's historical context, usually Jewish
Christians, Jews or Christian heretics, and Gentile Christians
respectively. Southerners and their allies simply changed the
typology, making Shem the ancestor of brown people, Ham the
ancestor of black people due to a reading of his genealogy in
Genesis 10, and Japheth the ancestor of white people. The new
typology justified African slavery as a divinely ordained and
sanctioned economic system, just as the old typology justified
Christian supersessionism.
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