Ian Randle Publishers
The Hills of Hebron
Sylvia Wynter
Literature & Fiction
The Hills of Hebron
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When Sister Rose, the beautiful young wife of Obadiah, the leader of the Church of New Believers, becomes pregnant, the hillside community of Hebron is thrown into a whirlwind of suspicion, disbelief and doubt. For Obadiah had taken a vow of chastity, not to lay with Rose for one year and one month. Obadiah protests his innocence to the congregation but the revelation of the pregnancy is the climax of the continuing power struggle between Obadiah and the jealous and ambitious Miss Gatha, Rose’s adoptive mother. Unrelenting and scathing in her attacks on Obadiah, Miss Gatha seeks to secure the succession of her son, the clubfooted Isaac, to his rightful place as leader of the new Believers, a position held by his father, the Prophet Moses who had led the New Believers into exile to build their Utopian community, the promised land in Hebron.

Written in the late 1950s on the cusp of Jamaica’s independence from Britain, The Hills of Hebron tells the story of a group of formerly enslaved Jamaicans as they attempt to create a new life and assert themselves against the colonial power. Strongly anti-colonial, the novel depicts Hebron as a Revivalist community embracing Afro-Caribbean religious practices and gives voice to the social forces of that period in Jamaican and Caribbean history. Based on the early twentieth century Bedwardism movement (a revivalist group led by Alexander Bedward), The Hills of Hebron, was one of the first attempts to present the lives of black Jamaicans not as colonial subjects, but as independent human beings.

Language
English
ISBN
978-976-637-691-8
Contents
Introduction
Part 1
1. The Vow
2. The Curse
3. The Drought
4. The Search
5. The Adulterer
6. The Star-Apple Tree
7. The Money-Box
8. The Ball
Part 2
9. The Kingdom of Heaven
10. The Legend
11. The Kingdom of Hebron
12. The Rootless Years
13. The Convert
14. The Moonshine Doll
15. The Seal
Part 3
16. The Crucifixion
17. The Betrayal
18. The Sea
19. The Rape
Part 4
20. The Return
21. The Journey
22. The Rain
Afterword
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