Episode 24: Nyasha Junior - Womanist Biblical Interpretation
The Bible For Normal People
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Womanist Midrash by Will Gaffney
Hagar appears in Genesis 16 and 21. She is forced to have a child with Abraham and that child is Ishmael. There are various interpreters over time who have looked at Hagar as a Black woman. But there's nothing in the text that indicates what we might think of as sort of modern categories of race.
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