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The Changing Significance of Race: African‐Americans and the Hebrew Bible
Author(s) -
Reid Stephen
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
religion compass
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.113
H-Index - 1
ISSN - 1749-8171
DOI - 10.1111/j.1749-8171.2008.00084.x
Subject(s) - hebrew bible , scholarship , race (biology) , hebrew , criticism , icon , african american , judaism , gender studies , history , religious studies , psychology , literature , biblical studies , theology , classics , sociology , art , philosophy , political science , law , ethnology , computer science , programming language
The role of race in African‐American biblical scholarship has shifted in the last 30 years. The scholars of the G.I. generation treated African presence in the Hebrew Bible as the central element in their research. The baby boom generation scholars work with the Hebrew Bible as a cultural icon for cultural criticism. It remains to see what directions Gen X research will take in the years to come.