MARC Record from Library of Congress

LEADER: 02735cam a22003138a 4500
001 2007016610
003 DLC
005 20100216090512.0
008 070424s2007 nyu b 000 0 eng
010 $a 2007016610
020 $a1403968276 (alk. paper)
040 $aDLC$cDLC$dDLC
043 $af------
050 00 $aBP137.5.N5$bP46 2007
082 00 $a220.8/305896$222
245 00 $aPeople of African descent and the story of Nimrod /$cedited by Anthony B. Pinn and Allen Dwight Callahan.
260 $aNew York :$bPalgrave Macmillan,$c2007.
263 $a0712
300 $ap. cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references.
505 0 $aIntroduction: "Figures of the true" / Allen Dwight Callahan -- The hunter and the game : reappropriating the legend of Nimrod from an African American theological perspective / James H. Evans, Jr. -- God of restraint : an African American humanist interpretation of Nimrod and the Tower of Babel / Anthony B. Pinn -- "I am black and beautiful, o ye daughters of Jerusalem" : African American virtue ethics and a womanist hermeneutics of redemption / Stacey Floyd-Thomas -- "Lest we be scattered abroad" : Nimrod, Marcus Garvey, and Black religious humanism in Harlem / Juan M. Floyd-Thomas -- More than a mighty hunter : George Washington Williams, nineteenth-century racialized discourse, and the reclamation of Nimrod / Abraham Smith -- The story of Nimrod : the struggle with otherness and the search for identity / Arthur L. Pressley -- Nimrod : reading the Bible with South African eyes / Elelwani B. Farisani -- Nimrod and dead prez : walking like a warrior / Ralph C. Watkins -- Nimrod and the South African context / Dorothy Farisani -- Who is the man? : Nimrod, Afrocentricism, and the African American dream / Lee H. Butler, Jr. -- "The strength of collective man" : Nimrod and the Tower of Babel / Allen Dwight Callahan -- Nimrod : paradigm of future oppressive systems / Jimmy Kirby -- Beyond the curse of Noah : African American pastoral theology as political / Edward P. Wimberly -- A tower of pulpits / Dale P. Andrews -- Reorientation by reference to "wrong way" makers : evaluating a modern signifying mythicization of an ancient mythicization / Theodore Walker, Jr.
600 00 $aNimrod$c(Biblical figure)$vLegends.
650 0 $aMythology, African.
650 0 $aIslamic legends.
700 1 $aPinn, Anthony B.
700 1 $aCallahan, Allen Dwight.
856 42 $3Contributor biographical information$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0714/2007016610-b.html
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0714/2007016610-d.html
856 41 $3Table of contents only$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0714/2007016610-t.html