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I'm Pete Ends. And I'm Jared Byas.

Hey everybody, welcome to the podcast. Our topic today is diverse voices and biblical scholarship.

And our guest is Miguel Delatore. Yeah, he's a professor at I live school of theology in

social ethics and Latinx studies. And you'll hear in just a little bit, got that wrong. And I

think for good reason, the amount of writing he does on biblical scholarship, which I always find

fascinating that he is talking about ethics, social ethics through the lens of the Bible, which I think

a lot of us at least grew up wanting to do. Yeah, I just, again, my bias, right? I just assumed,

you know, from reading a stuff. So, but anyway, he's written about 30 to 40,000 books, I think,

just to go to his website, he has a lot of stuff there. And in very diverse topics, like the politics

of Jesus reading the Bible from the margins, something called post-colonial theory. We talk a little

bit about colonialism in the episode, but yeah, just, you know, very enlightening to bring someone

onto the podcast to knows a lot about a particular area that we didn't have Jared. We just, we did

not grow up. The seminaries he's critiquing, I mean, you know, it's not a cheap shot. It describes

very much our experience and seminaries. Right. And for me, graduate school too. Well, and one thing

that maybe we can talk about here for just a minute before the podcast starts is I kept thinking in

the back of my mind, how does inner sex with politics? Because I wondered if some of our listeners might

think this is a political, and I guess it pains me to think that listeners might think this is a

political issue of diversity in biblical scholarship. And I kept trying to find out why it would be

the case, but throughout the episode, I don't know why this should be a political thing to talk about

diversity and having multiple voices in how we read and interpret our texts and how it's not great

for all of us that we've only read it through one particular lens for most of biblical history.

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