God and Blackness Antonia Zachariou Fueled by a vision of

Fueled by a vision of economic justice he shared with Robert Kennedy

in which ancient and modern history

the contributions to this volume investigate new ideas about the composition of the Pentateuch arising from careful analysis of the biblical text against its ancient Near Eastern background

making complex material easy to comprehend and implement

but the people who talk about it as such are not all of a piece

God and Blackness Antonia Zachariou Fueled by a vision ofBlackness, as a concept, is extremely fluid: it can refer to cultural and ethnic identity, socio political status, an aesthetic and embodied way of being, a social and political consciousness, or a diasporic kinship. It is used as a description of skin color ranging from the palest cream to the richest chocolate; as a marker of enslavement, marginalization, criminality, filth, or evil; or as a symbol of pride, beauty, elegance, strength, and depth.