Brand/Author: Brian K. Blount, general editor, with associate editors Cain Hope Felder, Clarice J. Martin, and Emerson B. Powery; publisher Fortress Press.

Book title: True to Our Native Land: An African American New Testament Commentary.

Format: Hardcover biblical commentary and reference volume with a glossy orange and black pictorial dust jacket featuring Jacob Lawrence's painting Palm Sunday on the front panel.

Language: English; narrative type nonfiction religious reference aimed at adult readers, pastors, seminarians, and students of African American religious studies and New Testament theology.

Topics and genre: Bible, New Testament studies, African American religious studies, biblical interpretation, liberation theology, Womanist biblical interpretation, African American church history, and Christian theology within the Religious and Spiritual and academic Bible commentary genres.

Features: Comprehensive one-volume New Testament commentary written from an African American perspective; includes introductory general articles on slavery in the early church, the place and role of Africa and African imagery in the Bible, African American and Womanist biblical interpretation, African American preaching and the Bible, and African art and biblical interpretation; provides book-by-book commentary on the books of the New Testament by leading African American biblical scholars; includes full-color art galleries, bibliographical references, and indexes.

Publication details: Copyright 2007 by Fortress Press, an imprint of Augsburg Fortress; scripture quotations primarily from the New Revised Standard Version Bible; cover image Palm Sunday (1956) by Jacob Lawrence courtesy of the North Carolina Central University Art Museum; Library of Congress cataloging lists classification BS2341.52 .T78 2007 with control number 2007005097; manufactured in the United States of America.

ISBN and barcode details: ISBN-13: 978-0-8006-3421-6; ISBN-10: 0-8006-3421-7; EAN: 9780800634216; rear jacket barcode panel lists category designation Religion / New Testament.