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Religion 315: Exodus/Moses

Resources on Exodus/Moses

Exodus/Moses—Exodus 12–14 (or other passages in Exodus)

Marbury, Herbert Robinson. Pillars of Cloud and Fire: The Politics of Exodus in African American Biblical Interpretation. New York: New York University Press, 2015. (ebook at Houghton)
- Read Introduction, Conclusion, and Chapter 1, 2, 3, 4, or 5

Ngwa, Kenneth. Let my People Live: An Africana Reading of Exodus. Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox, 2022. (ebook at Houghton)
- Read Conclusion and Chapter 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, or 6

Kirk-Duggan, Cheryl A. "Let my People Go! Threads of Exodus in African American Narratives” in Yet with a Steady Beat: Contemporary U.S. Afrocentric Biblical Interpretation edited by Bailey, Randall C. (chapter in print book on reserve at Houghton)

Callahan, Allen Dwight. The Talking Book: African Americans and the Bible. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2006. (also available in print book on reserve at Houghton)
- Read Chapter 1 and Chapter 5
  - Recommended: also read Chapters 2 and 3

Powery, Emerson and Sadler, Rodney. The Genesis of Liberation: Biblical Interpretation in the Antebellum Narratives of the Enslaved. Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox, 2016. (ebook at Houghton)
- Read Chapter 3 “The Sabbath and the Freedom Narrative” or Chapter 2 “The Bible and the Freedom Narrative” (Chapter 2 reflects on the Bible more broadly rather than Exodus in particular)