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Engraving of "The Vision of The Valley of The Dry Bones" by Gustave Doré. The Vision of the Valley of Dry Bones (or The Valley of Dry Bones or The Vision of Dry Bones) is a prophecy in chapter 37 of the Book of Ezekiel. [1] [2] The chapter details a vision revealed to the prophet Ezekiel, conveying a dream-like realistic-naturalistic depiction.
The Valley of Bones is the seventh novel in Anthony Powell's twelve-volume series A Dance to the Music of Time. Published in 1964, it is the first of the war trilogy. [1] The novel is separated into four chapters. The concluding sections of the previous novel, The Kindly Ones, show series protagonist Nick Jenkins trying to join the army. [2]
Dem Bones" (also called "Dry Bones" and "Dem Dry Bones") is a spiritual song. The melody was composed by author and songwriter James Weldon Johnson (1871–1938) and his brother, J. Rosamond Johnson. [1] It was first recorded by The Famous Myers Jubilee Singers in 1928. Both a long and a shortened version of the song are widely known.
God's Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse is a 1927 book of poems by James Weldon Johnson patterned after traditional African-American religious oratory. African-American scholars Henry Louis Gates and Cornel West have identified the collection as one of Johnson's two most notable works, the other being Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man .
DEM (44A: "___ Bones" (spiritual)) The lyrics of the spiritual, "DEM Bones," written by brothers James Weldon and J. Rosamond Johnson, were inspired by the Biblical story of the prophet Ezekiel ...
Ezekiel 37 is the thirty-seventh chapter of the Book of Ezekiel in the Hebrew Bible or the Old Testament of the Christian Bible.This book contains the prophecies attributed to the prophet/priest Ezekiel, and is one of the Nevi'im (Prophets). [1]
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Whittier references the "Vision of the Valley of Dry Bones" passage from the Bible in the poem, equating the freeing of the slaves to "a resurrection of the dry bones". [5] He describes Atlanta as "rising phoenixlike out of the ashes of war". [6] Steve Courtney considers the poem to be an "optimistic view of the South's future, free from slavery."