Martin Luther King's biblical epic : his final, great speech / Keith D. Miller.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Miller, Keith D.

Series:

American made music series.

Race, rhetoric, and media series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sanitation Workers Strike, Memphis, Tenn., 1968.

King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968--Oratory.

King, Martin Luther.

King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968. I've been to the mountaintop.

King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968--Knowledge--Bible.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (260 p.)

Place of Publication:

Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, c2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In his final speech ""I've Been to the Mountaintop,"" Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his support of African American garbage workers on strike in Memphis. Although some consider this oration King's finest, it is mainly known for its concluding two minutes, wherein King compares himself to Moses and seems to predict his own assassination. But King gave an hour-long speech, and the concluding segment can only be understood in relation to the whole. King scholars generally focus on his theology, not his relation to the Bible or the circumstance of a Baptist speaking in a Pentecostal setting. Ev

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: And Then I Got into Memphis; Chapter 1 I Left Atlanta: King's Religious Rhetoric; Chapter 2 A Certain Man Fell among Thieves: King and the Parable of the Good Samaritan; Chapter 3 I'm Delighted to See Each of You Here Tonight: Pentecostalism and Mason Temple; Chapter 4 Across the Red Sea: The Exodus Continues; Chapter 5 Fire on the Streets and in the Bones: King Revives Hebrew Prophecy; Chapter 6 If I Do Not Stop, What Will Happen to Them? King's Rhetoric of the Body

Chapter 7 Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory: Julia Ward Howe, the Bible, and MemphisChapter 8 If I Had Merely Sneezed, I Would Have Died: King's Biblical Interpretation; Appendix A: Text of "I've Been to the Mountaintop"; Appendix B: The Parable of the Good Samaritan, as Told in Luke 10:25-37; Appendix C: The Murray/Buttrick Intertext; Appendix D: The Luccock/Buttrick Intertext; Appendix E: The Buttrick/King Intertext; Appendix F: The Murray/Buttrick/King Intertext; Appendix G: The Luccock/Buttrick/King Intertext; Appendix H: Liberal Protestant Commonplaces in "I've Been to the Mountaintop"

Appendix I: Parallels for Segments of "I've Been to the Mountaintop"Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-283-34135-2

9786613341358

1-61703-109-7

OCLC:

772160424