Description
In this accessible and provocative study, Brian Blount reads the book of Revelation through the lens of African American culture, drawing correspondences between Revelation's context and the long-standing suffering of African Americans. Applying the African American social, political, and religious experience as an interpretive cipher for the book's complicated imagery, he contends that Revelation is essentially a story of suffering and struggle amid oppressive assimilation. He examines the language of martyr and the image of the lamb, and shows that the thread of resistance to oppressive power that runs through John's hymns resonates with a parallel theme in the music of African America.
Author: Brian K. Blount
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Published: 01/05/2005
Pages: 168
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 8.50h x 6.26w x 0.51d
ISBN13: 9780664228699
ISBN10: 0664228690
BISAC Categories:
- Religion | Biblical Studies | Prophecy
- Religion | Biblical Studies | New Testament | General
- Social Science | Ethnic Studies | American | African American & Black Studies