We get some useful personal history in the early part of the book – McCaulley grew up in the South, well aware of the hazards of simply being black, and suffering the slights and distain that comes for people with his colour of skin. He also writes opinion pieces for The New York Times and The Washington Post. Wright, an ordained minister in the Anglican church, and an Assistant Professor of New Testament at Wheaton College. 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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