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At the birth of the United States, African Americans were excluded from the newly-formed Republic and its churches, which saw them as savage rather than citizen and as heathen rather than Christian. Denied civil access to the basic rights granted to others, African Americans have developed their own sacred traditions and their own civil discourses. As part of this effort, African American intellectuals offered interpretations of the Bible which were radically different and often fundamentally oppositional to those of many of their white counterparts. By imagining a freedom unconstrained, their work charted a broader and, perhaps, a more genuinely American identity. In Pillars of Cloud and Fire, Herbert Robinson Marbury offers a comprehensive survey of African American biblical interpretation.
Each chapter in this compelling volume moves chronologically, from the antebellum period and the Civil War through to the Harlem Renaissance, the civil rights movement, the black power movement, and the Obama era, to offer a historical context for the interpretative activity of that time and to analyze its effect in transforming black social reality. For African American thinkers such as Absalom Jones, David Walker, Zora Neale Hurston, Frances E. W. Harper, Adam Clayton Powell, and Martin Luther King, Jr., the exodus story became the language-world through which freedom both in its sacred resonance and its civil formation found expression. This tradition, Marbury argues, has much to teach us in a world where fundamentalisms have become synonymous with authentic religious expression and American identity. For African American biblical interpreters, to be American and to be Christian was always to be open and oriented toward freedom.

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Pillars of Cloud and Fire RELIGION AND SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION General Editors - photo 1
Pillars of Cloud and Fire
RELIGION AND SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION
General Editors: Anthony B. Pinn and Stacey M. Floyd-Thomas
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James E. Shelton and Michael O. Emerson
Pillars of Cloud and Fire: The Politics of Exodus in African American Biblical Interpretation
Herbert Robinson Marbury
Pillars of Cloud and Fire
The Politics of Exodus in African American Biblical Interpretation
Herbert Robinson Marbury
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NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
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NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
New York and London
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Marbury, Herbert Robinson.
Pillars of cloud and fire : the politics of exodus in African American biblical interpretation / Herbert Robinson Marbury.
pages cm Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-4798-3596-6 (cloth : alk. paper) ISBN 978-1-4798-1250-9 (paper : alk. paper)
1. Black theology. 2. BibleBlack interpretations. 3. Exodus, TheTypology. I. Title.
BT82.7.M356 2015
230.08996073dc23 2015010013
New York University Press books are printed on acid-free paper, and their binding materials are chosen for strength and durability. We strive to use environmentally responsible suppliers and materials to the greatest extent possible in publishing our books.
Manufactured in the United States of America
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Dedicated to my parents,
Chaplain (LTC) Herbert Lawrence Marbury and Annette Robinson Marbury, who taught me to remember the struggle and to join it.
{~?~begin epigraph}
It is evident that the opening lines of Go Down, Moses,
Go down, Moses,
Way down in Egypt land;
Tell old Pharaoh,
Let my people go.
have a significance beyond the bondage of Israel in Egypt.
James Weldon Johnson, The Book of American Negro Poetry, 1922
Contents
African American biblical interpretation has taken a decisive turn toward cultural studies.
The inclusion of cultural studies in biblical scholarship has been three decades in the making.
In the following decade, African American biblical scholars built upon much of this early work and intentionally explored the goods of
On one hand, the studies by Cain Hope Felder, Randall C. Bailey, and Michael J. Brown have come to shape black biblical scholarship. Each is interested in chronicling and displaying ways that African American scholars interpret texts and the worlds from which those texts emerge. These studies offer important critiques of the history of scholarship, while presenting new interpretations with keen attention to the marginalizing work of the politics of gender, class, and racialization.
Pioneers in both approaches have raised important challenges for the direction of future work. First, Wimbush challenges the scholars to leave no practice or practitioner in the whole phenomenon without critical attention and to pursue not so much [... ] what scriptures mean (in terms of content), but how scriptures mean in terms of psycho-social-cultural performances and their politics). These four challenges press African American biblical interpretation to rethink itself and its place in the field of biblical studies. Together, they expand the work of African American biblical interpretation and call it to think of itself beyond its current methodological and theoretical boundaries.
This book positions itself between these two types of studies and responds to these four challenges by focusing on textuality, that is, how texts come to mean within cultural fields of significance. It does this in two ways. First, it retrieves a tradition of non-specialist interpretation that preceded and deeply influenced African American academic interpretation. Second, it critically appraises the politics of interpretations as much as the interpretations themselves. In this second endeavor, the book takes seriously the notion of culture as all-encompassing. It understands scholarly activity as deeply embedded in wider webs of significance with no radical disjuncture between the academy and the world and traces strands of the larger history of black peoples encounter with the biblical text from the antebellum period to the late twentieth century. In this way the book is both informed by and informative of the unfolding black culture to which it is committed. Ultimately, this book contributes to the long tradition of investigating black peoples continuing encounter with the Bible by clearing one more mile on the path toward freedom.
Although this project bears my name, it belongs to a rich and broad village. It could not have been completed without those who blessed my journey with their love, support, intellectual insight, and prayers. I thank God for all of them. Long ago, classes and formative conversations with professors and mentors such as Delores P. Alderidge, Gloria Wade-Gayles, Nagueyalti Warren, Rosetta Gooden, Ojeda Penn, Vera Dixon Rorie, Sylvester Hopewell, and Tariq Shakoor, at Emory University, awakened my voice and honed it for writing. I continue to benefit from the work, witness, and friendship of Randall C. Bailey, who was my first Old Testament professor. He introduced me to the academic study of religion and launched me on my journey in biblical studies. Renita J. Weems, my adviser, instilled in me a love for the Hebrew Bible that moved beyond simple, mechanical criticism to rich and appreciative critique. Randy and Renita modeled the importance of asking the questions that matter to those communities of mothers and fathers that had formed me and who sent me to academe. I hope that I have done so here. Bishop James S. Thomas and Bishop L. Scott Allen offered advice and encouragement at critical times. Both reminded me of my responsibility to the United Methodist Church. I am especially grateful and indebted to Charles B. Copher, a beacon of biblical scholarship and a devoted United Methodist clergyperson. He believed deeply enough in the task of encouraging young African American Hebrew Bible scholars to give generously of precious time during his final months of life.
Upon reading my first draft, Victor Anderson advised me to forget most of what I had learned about writing for my colleagues in academe, and to reclaim the voice I had honed as an undergraduate literature major. Our conversations sharpened my analysis. Victor listened patiently as I read chapters and, with each reading, I revived a voice that I thought was long lost.
Lewis V. Baldwin remains, for me, one of the finest examples of excellence as a historian. He graciously read and discussed the chapter on the Civil Rights Movement. In our conversations, he generously gave me the benefit of a lifetime of study devoted to the life and intellectual work of Martin Luther King, Jr. Moreover, he and Jackie Baldwin freely offered mentoring and moral support along the way.
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