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Originally published in Born to Preach: Essays in Honor of the Ministry of Henry & Ella Mitchell, Samuel K. Roberts, ed. (Judson Press, 2000), 2239.
The Jewish people endured oppression and slavery during the years recorded in the Holy Scriptures. Dr. Jerome Clayton Ross looks to the lack of freedom that the Yahwist writers experienced as a point of connection for African American Christians. He examines conditions such as common language and place as necessary for the survival of both the Jewish and African peoples. Only by seeing the story of the Jewish people through the filter of their particular time and place can we truly understand the cry for freedom that echoes throughout the Scriptures.
Jerome Clayton Ross, PhD, is assistant professor of Old Testament and Hebrew at the Samuel DeWitt Proctor School of Theology at Virginia Union University. His research interests lie in biblical law and Israelite history and culture.