First Pure, Then Peaceable: Frederick Douglass, Darkness and the Epistle of James
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First Pure, Then Peaceable: Frederick Douglass, Darkness and the Epistle of James  -     By: Margaret P. Aymer

First Pure, Then Peaceable: Frederick Douglass, Darkness and the Epistle of James

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Title: First Pure, Then Peaceable: Frederick Douglass, Darkness and the Epistle of James
By: Margaret P. Aymer
Format: Hardcover
Number of Pages: 148
Vendor: Bloomsbury Academic
Publication Date: 2008
Dimensions: 9.29 X 6.36 X 0.73 (inches)
Weight: 14 ounces
ISBN: 0567033074
ISBN-13: 9780567033079
Series: Library of New Testament Studies
Stock No: WW033079

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In 2001, Continuum published the extensive collected papers from African Americans and the Bible, an interdisciplinary conference held at Union Theological Seminary, NYC. In the collection's introduction, Vincent L. Wimbush issued a challenge to take seriously those who "read darkness," and to consider what it is they are doing when they read the Bible as "scripture." Wimbush's focus on "darkness readers," both within and outside of the African diaspora, breaks open the discourse around the nature, meaning, and importance of the Bible. By following the lead of "darkness readers," the Bible is revealed to be more than a collection of ancient documents from an inaccessible past; it is the site upon which modern, contemporary ideological battles have and continue to be waged.

In this book Margaret Aymer takes up his challenge. It is an examination of the way in which Frederick Douglass, the nineteenth-century abolitionist, used the epistle of James, particularly Jas 3:17, in his abolitionist speeches, to "read" the "darkness" of slavery and slaveholding Christianity. Within the epistle of James is a rhetoric of the world as "darkness". Douglass uses this to read his contemporary "darkness." As part of her research, Aymer has created an index of biblical references in all of Frederick Douglass' abolitionist speeches as collected by J. W. Blassingame (1841-1860).

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