Brian K. Blount

Can I Get a Witness

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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… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Blount / Blount, Brian K. (Hrsg.)

ISBN: 978-0-664-22869-9
EAN: 9780664228699
Produktnummer: 1437805
Verlag: Westminster John Knox Press
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2005
Seitenangabe: 172 S.
Masse: H21.6 cm x B14.0 cm x D0.9 cm 225 g
Abbildungen: Paperback
Gewicht: 225

Über den Autor

Brian K. Blount is President and Professor of New Testament at Union Theological Seminary and Presbyterian School of Secondary Education in Richmond, Virginia. He is the coauthor of Preaching Mark in Two Voices and Making Room at the Table and the author of Can I Get a Witness?, all available from WJK.