Slavery and "beyond slavery" : then is still now / How liberating is the exodus and for whom? Deconstructing Exodus motifs in scripture, literature, and life / Mende nazer Territory and identity : the beginnings and beyond / Athalya Brenner -- "God's perfectly effected purpose, or his purposely effected neglect" : Exodus and wilderness in Australia / Roland Boer -- Pharaoh as a character in Exodus 1-2 : an Egyptian perspective / Magdi S. Gendi -- Mixed multitude : an African reading of Exodus 12:38 / David Tuesday Adamo -- In search of children's agency : reading Exodus from Sweden / Mikael Larsson -- Longing for Egypt : dissecting the heart enticed / Diana Lipton -- Relevance of the Jewish Passover for Christianity in Africa : an interpretation from a community-centered perspective / Solomon Olusola Ademiluka -- Before crossing the Jordan : the telling and retelling of the Exodus narrative in African American history / Matthew J.M. Coomber -- Leadership : Moses and Miriam. Birth, early life, and commission of Moses : a reading from post-handover Hong Kong / Sonia Kwok Wong -- Miriam and me / Naomi Graetz -- Imaging Moses and Miriam re-imaged : through the empathic looking glass of a Singaporean Peranakan woman / Angeline M.G. Song -- What would Moses do? On applying the test of a false prophet to the current climate crisis / Joseph Ryan Kelly -- Law. Decalogue : am I an addressee? / Athalya Brenner -- Abominable and perverted alliance? Toward a Latin-American queer communitarian reading of Deuteronomy / Fernando Candido da Silva -- Terms of endearment? The desirable female captive and her illicit acquisition / Sandra Jacobs -- Precious memories : rule of law in Deuteronomy as catalyst for domestic violence / Cheryl Kirk-Duggan -- Debt and interest in the Hebrew Bible : the silently indebted in ancient Israel and their Finnish companions today / Kari Latvus -- Slavery and "beyond slavery" : then is still now / Mende nazer with Bernadette J. Brooten.
Summary:
"The Texts @ Contexts series gathers scholarly voices from diverse contexts and social locations to bring new or unfamiliar facets of biblical texts to light. Exodus and Deuteronomy focuses attention on two books of the Torah that share themes of journey and of diverse experiences in or upon the land; the echoes of the exodus across time, space, and culture; of different understandings of (male and female) leadership; and of the promise, and problem, posed by various aspects of biblical law. These essays de-center the often homogeneous first-world orientation of much biblical scholarship and open up new possibilities for discovery" -- Publisher description.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.