Context Matters

When Genre Influences Interpretation

Episode Summary

Dr. Ericka Dunbar joins us to talk about her studies of the book of Esther. She is an Assistant Professor of Christian Scriptures at Baylor University.

Episode Notes

In part 1 of our conversation on the book of Esther, Dr. Ericka Dunbar introduces us to contextual influences in her life that changed how she read the book of Esther. Far from a story about queens and beauty pageants, Dr. Dunbar highlights the problematic issues around gender, ethnicity, violence, and sexualized abuse that are in the text that we cannot ignore.

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