Race and Rhyme: Rereading the New Testament Sechrest Love Lazarus
Race and Rhyme: Rereading the New Testament Sechrest Love Lazarus A leading womanist biblical scholar reads passages from the New Testament in dialogue with modern-day issues of racial justice.The…
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Race and Rhyme: Rereading the New Testament Sechrest Love Lazarus
A leading womanist biblical scholar reads passages from the New Testament in dialogue with modern-day issues of racial justice.The narratives and letters of the New Testament emerged from a particular set of historical contexts that differ from today's, but they resonate with us because of how the issues they raise "rhyme" with subjects of contemporary relevance. Listening for these echoes of the present in the past, Love Sechrest utilizes her cultural experience and her perspective as a Black woman scholar to reassess passages in the New Testament that deal with intergroup conflict, ethnoracial tension, and power dynamics between dominant and minoritized groups.After providing an overview of womanist biblical interpretation and related terminology, Sechrest utilizes an approach she calls "associative hermeneutics" to place select New Testament texts in
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