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In this accessible and provocative study, Blount draws correspondences between Revelation's context and the suffering of the African American church. 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 amidst oppressive assimilation.