Second Isaiah Lands in Washington, DC: Martin Luther King, Jr.'s “I Have a Dream” as Biblical Narrative and Biblical HermeneuticFootnote∗

∗Reprinted by arrangement with the Estate of Martin Luther King, Jr, c/o Writers House as agent for the proprietor, New York, NY.

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