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The Exodus and the American Imagination with Dr. Virginia Arbery

The After Dinner Scholar

Last week on the After-Dinner Scholar, theologian Dr. Kent Lasnoski talked with us about the story of Israel in the Old Testament book of Exodus. This week we’ll continue the conversation about Exodus only we’ll jump ahead of Moses by three thousand years. Within the Bible, the story of the Exodus, chronicling how God delivered Israel from slavery in Egypt lent a strong sense of identity to the American colonists, the founders, and African-Americans, and others. Dr. Virginia Arbery has an abiding interest in story of the Exodus and our American imagination.