Reimagining Hagar: blackness and Bible
This book offers a reception history that examines interpretations of Hagar with a focus on interpretations of Hagar as a Black woman.
| Résumé: | This book offers a reception history that examines interpretations of Hagar with a focus on interpretations of Hagar as a Black woman. Cover -- REIMAGINING HAGAR: Blackness and Bible -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Introduction -- Race, ethnicity, and color -- Blackness and biblical characters -- African American vernacular tradition -- Overview -- Notes -- 1: Mother Hagar -- The Hebrew Bible -- GENESIS 16:1-6 -- GENESIS 16:7-16 -- GENESIS 17:1-21:7 -- GENESIS 21:8-21 -- OTHER HEBREW BIBLE TEXTS -- The New Testament -- GALATIANS 4:21-31 -- Additional scriptural texts -- Hagar in ancient commentaries -- Hagar in early allegorical readings -- Hagar in Islamic traditions -- Hagar and Blackness in early traditions -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 2: Egyptian Hagar -- Debates over enslavement in the USA -- Hagar: pro-slavery -- Hagar: anti-slavery -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 3: Aunt Hagar -- What's in a name? -- Representations of Hagar -- Music involving Hagar -- Hagar in literature -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 4: Black Hagar -- Twentieth-century biblical commentary -- Hagar as African and Egyptian -- Reading Hagar with contemporary parallels -- Stony the Road We Trod -- Contemporary parallels continued -- Sisters in the Wilderness -- Hagar parallels after Williams -- Concerns with Hagar parallels -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Epilogue -- Note -- Bibliography -- Index. |
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| Description matérielle: | 1 online resource (169 pages) |
| ISBN: | 0191062502 |