I just finished Reading While Black for Book Club. Great discussion on this topic and many others. I appreciated McCaulley's fresh perspective on these verses. Also highly recommend!
In Reading While Black, McCaulley says (among other things) we have to hold this passage in tension with the fact that Paul gives props to Moses, who was perhaps the ultimate rebel against “the state” when he led Israel out of Egypt. I like your thoughts here. It will be interesting to see how you develop this in your paper!
I’m looking at McCaulleys book today for this paper so I’ll look out for that. Thanks! Yes the more I read the more I’m amazed at how this passage ended up at the center of our political theology. Yet at the same time when so much of 20th century exegesis and theology has been built on a “plain reading of the text” I’m not surprised. Thanks for reading Bobby!
I just finished Reading While Black for Book Club. Great discussion on this topic and many others. I appreciated McCaulley's fresh perspective on these verses. Also highly recommend!
Spent some time going through some of that book over the weekend. It is really good. I’ll be reading the entire thing in the next month or two.
In Reading While Black, McCaulley says (among other things) we have to hold this passage in tension with the fact that Paul gives props to Moses, who was perhaps the ultimate rebel against “the state” when he led Israel out of Egypt. I like your thoughts here. It will be interesting to see how you develop this in your paper!
I’m looking at McCaulleys book today for this paper so I’ll look out for that. Thanks! Yes the more I read the more I’m amazed at how this passage ended up at the center of our political theology. Yet at the same time when so much of 20th century exegesis and theology has been built on a “plain reading of the text” I’m not surprised. Thanks for reading Bobby!