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
.
13 James Joyce,
Ulysses
(
New York
:
Random House
,
1961
),
34
.
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.
16 Edward W. Said,
Orientalism
(
New York
:
Vintage Books
,
1978
).
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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