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  2. African American biblical hermeneutics - Wikipedia

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    However, as African Americans began to claim Christianity as their own, African American biblical hermeneutics arose out of the experiences of racism in the United States. The discourse has been dominated by two core paradigmatic events in the Bible: the Exodus from Egypt and the ministry of Jesus. Both have been used to articulate God's ...

  3. Black Bible Chronicles - Wikipedia

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    The Black Bible Chronicles books were all written by P.K. McCary as a way to bring the "message of life into the language of the streets". [3] The original Biblical passages are summarized; the rhythm of the original verses is maintained, but the vocabulary and phrasing uses African American Vernacular English (AAVE or Ebonics). Excerpts can be ...

  4. Category:African-American biblical scholars - Wikipedia

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    African Americans who were scholars in the field of Biblical studies. This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:American biblical scholars . It includes American biblical scholars that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent.

  5. Black theology - Wikipedia

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    Modern American origins of contemporary black theology can be traced to July 31, 1966, when an ad hoc group of 51 concerned clergy, calling themselves the National Committee of Negro Churchmen, bought a full page ad in The New York Times to publish their "Black Power Statement", which proposed a more aggressive approach to combating racism using the Bible for inspiration. [5]

  6. Black Hebrew Israelites - Wikipedia

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    A photograph of William Saunders Crowdy which appeared in a 1907 edition of The Baltimore Sun. The origins of the Black Hebrew Israelite movement are found in Frank Cherry and William Saunders Crowdy, who both claimed that they had revelations in which they believed that God told them that African Americans are descendants of the Hebrews in the Christian Bible; Cherry established the "Church ...

  7. The number of Americans who take the Bible as God’s “actual word” has decreased from 24% since 2017 and is only half of what it was when that belief peaked in 1984, Gallup reported.