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Kay, Roy.

The Ethiopian prophecy in Black American letters / Roy Kay. - Gainesville : University Press of Florida, ©2011. - 1 online resource (xi, 258 pages) - History of African American Religions . - History of African-American religions. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: the inch and ells of Psalm 68:31 -- Early Jewish and Christian figures of Ethiopia -- Managing Blackness: Protestant readings of Psalm 68:31 in colonial America -- Uplifting Ethiopia in America: conversion, self-consciousness, and the figure of Ethiopia -- Missionary emigrationism: Psalm 68:31 and uplifting the Ethiopians in Africa -- Psalm 68:31 and the fight for freedom and equality in antebellum America -- Reading for independence: the figure of Ethiopia and the new Africa -- Rewriting Psalm 68:31: narrative formations of Ethiopia -- Figural exhaustion: parodying the figures of Ethiopia -- Conclusion: reading and refiguring the figures of Ethiopia.

Utilizing examples from Richard Allen, Maria W. Stewart, Kate Drumgoold, Phillis Wheatley, Martin Delany, W.E.B. DuBois, Marcus Garvey, and Ralph Ellison, Kay reveals the wide variety of ways this verse has been interpreted and conceptualized in African American history and letters for more than two hundred years. &

ISBN: 9780813040516 0813040515 9780813041582 0813041589

Subjects--Uniform Titles:
Bible.--Psalms, LXVIII, 31--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Bible.--Old Testament--Prophecies.
Bible.--Old Testament

Subjects--Topical Terms:
African Americans--Religion.
Noirs américains--Religion.
RELIGION--Biblical Studies--Old Testament.
RELIGION--Biblical Studies--Wisdom Literature.
African Americans--Religion
Ethiopia in the Bible

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Ethiopia--In the Bible.
Éthiopie--Dans la Bible.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Prophecies

LC Class. No.: BS1450 68th / .K39 2011eb

Dewey Class. No.: 223/.20608996073