You're listening to the Bible for Normal People, the only God ordained podcast on the internet.

Serious talk about the sacred book. I'm Pete Ends.

And I'm Jared Byas.

Hello, normal people. Welcome to this episode of the Bible for Normal People podcast.

Our topic today is womanist, biblical interpretation, and our guest is Dr.

Nysha Jr., who is a system professor of Hebrew Bible slash Old Testament at Temple University.

And she writes, obviously, teaches, speaks, and she tweets a lot.

She loves Twitter on the topics of race and gender, religion, and their intersections.

And she has a wonderful book out called an introduction to womanist, biblical interpretation.

And it's wonderful to have somebody here who is an expert in a topic that Jared,

a lot of us just don't know anything about. Yeah, I know I don't.

Yeah, I appreciated just getting educated on, on this topic.

And I actually appreciated as we were talking to her, I felt like she did a good

job of, of nuance and what she was trying to say and making sure that we weren't over

generalizing or oversimplifying what is, I think, a complicated area.

Which is an easy thing to do is to oversimplify things you don't understand.

And that doesn't work that way. Life is complicated.

And, you know, as we both went to seminaries that we learned a lot at,

but was still entirely male Eurocentric in its approach.

There are just things that we have never had to think about in an academic sense.

And I feel, and I'm happy to say we're playing catch up at our age and things that are just out

there. And that actually affect real people.

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