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Deuteronomy 14:1–16:17 (Food and Festivals)

The Two Testaments

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Reading the Bible With People From the Malle Perspective

I've been thinking a lot as I've moved to New Zealand in the last year and I'm working in a context that's not only cross-cultural but multicultural. One of my Malle students Lisa Knight did a reading of Genesis in dialogue with the Malle world view and pointed out all this stuff that I had completely missed about how creation in Genesis 1 acts more like a character in the drama than like inert matter for westerners. Danny Zacharias has a great essay called The Land Takes Care of Us in Theologies of Land where he does a a Native American reading of the creation story. It is really helping me see new things that are there in the text that I had missed

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