Kay, Roy.

The Ethiopian prophecy in Black American letters [electronic resource] / Roy Kay. - Gainesville : University Press of Florida, c2011. - 1 online resource (xi, 258 p.)

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.

9780813040516 (electronic bk.) 0813040515 (electronic bk.)


Bible.--O.T.--Psalms LXVIII, 31--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Bible.--O.T.--Prophecies.


Ethiopia in the Bible.
African Americans--Religion.
RELIGION / Biblical Studies / Old Testament
RELIGION / Biblical Studies / Wisdom Literature


Electronic books.

BS1450 68th / .K39 2011eb

223/.20608996073