Trouble in Goshen
Operating on the conviction, or at least the hope, that it is better to plead forgiveness than ask permission, I acknowledge my debt to Jim Bissett and the Bible. The book’s title was inspired by Jim Bissett’s Agrarian Socialism: Marx, Jefferson, and Jesus in the Oklahoma Countryside. I met Dr....
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oai:lib.umy.ac.id:527682021-06-16T13:06:23ZTrouble in GoshenFred C. SmithRural development—Southern States—History—20th century, Rural poorOperating on the conviction, or at least the hope, that it is better to plead forgiveness than ask permission, I acknowledge my debt to Jim Bissett and the Bible. The book’s title was inspired by Jim Bissett’s Agrarian Socialism: Marx, Jefferson, and Jesus in the Oklahoma Countryside. I met Dr. Bissett once and complimented him on his excellent book and its winsome title. I remember bragging on the title a lot. I think—but cannot be sure—that I threatened to borrow his exquisite and apt phrasing. The title of this book proves my guilt. The second acknowledgment and apology concern the first part of the title. Goshen was the best of the land of Egypt, and the initial terms of the sharecropping arrangement that Joseph negotiated turned out to be liberal and profitable. The prospect of occupying the best of the land on terms that promised prosperity (Pharaoh required only a fifth of the crop—“on fifths,†as a Delta cropper might say) must surely have enticed the sustenance-challenged children of Israel. Any extension of the theological and anthropological implications of the biblical Goshen violates the boundary between employing an analogy and torturing it. Goshen remains a bare analogy, and I claim no thaumaturgic properties in its further application to plain folk of the Great Depression South. The hope, among the most distressed of the Great Depression, of inclusion in one of three “American Goshens†must have engendered feelings at least in some ways akin to those of the Hebrew children as they viewed Goshen for the first time.University Press of Mississippi2014eBookebook 506Bahasa Inggrishttp://oaipmh-jogjalib.umy.ac.idkatalog.php?opo=lihatDetilKatalog&id=52768 |
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Operating on the conviction, or at least the hope, that it is better to plead forgiveness
than ask permission, I acknowledge my debt to Jim Bissett and the
Bible. The book’s title was inspired by Jim Bissett’s Agrarian Socialism: Marx,
Jefferson, and Jesus in the Oklahoma Countryside. I met Dr. Bissett once and
complimented him on his excellent book and its winsome title. I remember
bragging on the title a lot. I think—but cannot be sure—that I threatened to
borrow his exquisite and apt phrasing. The title of this book proves my guilt.
The second acknowledgment and apology concern the first part of the
title. Goshen was the best of the land of Egypt, and the initial terms of the
sharecropping arrangement that Joseph negotiated turned out to be liberal
and profitable. The prospect of occupying the best of the land on terms that
promised prosperity (Pharaoh required only a fifth of the crop—“on fifths,â€
as a Delta cropper might say) must surely have enticed the sustenance-challenged
children of Israel. Any extension of the theological and anthropological
implications of the biblical Goshen violates the boundary between employing
an analogy and torturing it. Goshen remains a bare analogy, and I
claim no thaumaturgic properties in its further application to plain folk of
the Great Depression South. The hope, among the most distressed of the
Great Depression, of inclusion in one of three “American Goshens†must
have engendered feelings at least in some ways akin to those of the Hebrew
children as they viewed Goshen for the first time. |
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University Press of Mississippi |
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2014 |
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