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Footnotes
1 See Kenneth Ngwa,
“Ferguson, Bible and the ‘Long Division’ of Race,”
http://wabashcenter.typepad.com/antiracism_pedagogy/2014/09/fergusson-bible-and-the-long-division-of-race.html.2 Jan Assmann,
Moses the Egyptian: The Memory of Egypt in Western Monotheism
(Cambridge
: Harvard University Press
, 1997
), 9
.3 Jan Assmann,
Religion and Cultural Memory: Ten Studies
, trans. Rodney Livingstone, Cultural Memory in the Present (Stanford, CA
: Stanford University Press
, 2006
), 27
.4 Dionne Brand,
A Map to the Door of No Return: Notes to Belonging
(Toronto
: Vintage
, 2001
), 4
–5
.5 Tim Lake, in a private conversation with me.
6 See Tod Linafelt, ed.,
Strange Fire: Reading the Bible after the Holocaust
, BibSem 71 (Sheffield
: Sheffield Academic
, 2000
); and Danna Nolan Fewell and Gary A. Phillips, “Bak’s Impossible Memorial: Giving Face to the Children,”
ARTS
20
(2009
): 93
–123
.7 Emerson B. Powery and Rodney S. Sadler Jr.,
The Genesis of Liberation: Biblical Interpretation in the Antebellum Narratives of the Enslaved
(Louisville
: Westminster John Knox
, 2016
), 2
–3
.8 Gerald O. West,
The Stolen Bible: From Tool of Imperialism to African Icon
, BibInt (Leiden
: Brill
, 2016
).9 See the intersections of Bible, religion, culture, and gun violence (war) in Akiki K. Nyabongo’s The Story of an African Chief (
New York
: Scribner’s Sons
, 1935
).10 David M. Carr,
Holy Resilience: The Bible’s Traumatic Origins
(New Haven
: Yale University Press
, 2014
).11 Jonathan Z. Smith,
Map Is Not Territory: Studies in the History of Religion
, SJLA 23 (Leiden
: Brill
, 1978
), 288
–90
.14 See Desmond Tutu,
No Future without Forgiveness
(New York
: Doubleday
, 1999
); Michael Battle, Ubuntu: I in You and You in Me
(New York
: Seabury Books
, 2009
).15 Vincent Wimbush,
“TEXTures, Gestures, Power: Orientation to Radical Excavation,”
in Theorizing Scriptures: New Critical Orientations to a Cultural Phenomenon
, ed. Vincent Wimbush, Signifying (on) Scriptures (New Brunswick, NJ
: Rutgers University Press
, 2008
), 1
–20
, here 1.17 Achille Mbembe,
“Provisional Notes on the Postcolony,”
Africa: Journal of the International African Institute
62
(1992
): 3
–37
, here 4 (in his later work On the Postcolony, Studies on the History of Society and Culture 41 [Berkeley
: University of California Press
, 2001
], Mbembe dropped this expression); Zora Neale Hurston, Moses, Man of the Mountain
(New York
: Harperperennial
, 1991
), 31
.18 Achille Mbembe,
“Necropolitics,”
trans. Libby Meintjes, Public Culture
15
(2003
): 11
–40
, here 11.19 Kenneth Ngwa,
“The Making of Gershom’s Story: A Cameroonian Postwar Hermeneutics Reading of Exodus 2,”
JBL
134
(2015
): 855
–76
.20 Sigmund Freud,
Moses and Monotheism
, trans. Katharine Jones (New York
: Vintage Books
, 1939
).21 Yosef Hayim Yerusalmi,
Freud’s Moses: Judaism Terminable and Interminable
(New Haven
: Yale University Press
, 1991
); Edward Said, Freud and the Non-European
(London
: Verso
, 2003
).22 Freud,
Moses and Monotheism
, 69
–70
.23
Ibid.
, 52
.24
Ibid.
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