And It Begins Like This

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LaTanya McQueen. And It Begins Like This

In the Name of the Fathers

Before You Throw Her Body Down

After Water Comes the Fire

And Lest You Forget1

Notes:

If My Heart Should Confess

As For Me And My House

And For By Grace

Glory Be Her Name

The Inheritors

A Plumb, Falling

Acknowledgments

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And It Begins Like This

and for those who have yet to be heard.

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Theologians have interpreted this mark in many different ways. Some believe it to be a symbol of God’s promise of protection. Others have suggested that the mark was a distinguishing characteristic God gave so that people would see and not harm him. In the 18th century it was taught that the Cain’s mark was black skin and that his descendants were black and still under the “the curse of Cain.”

There is no clear consensus as to which of these definitions is being referred to regarding Cain’s mark.

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