McCaulley is a biblical scholar, who earned his PhD working with renown scholar, N.T. These are some of the questions Esau McCaulley wrestles with in this important contribution to a conversation about how we read the Bible in these troubled times, when societies all over the world, not least in the United States, are coming to terms with the endemic racism that has pervaded them. Esau McCaulley, Reading While Black: African American Biblical Interpretation as an Exercise in Hope (InterVarsityPress, 2020)ĭoes the Bible endorse slavery? Is it, effectively, then, racist? Is it fundamentally flawed and of limited value? Can it only be rescued by a wholesale re-interpretation and reconstruction, discarding parts deemed to be unpalatable and revising others to suit a modern, more liberal agenda?
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