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Welcome back on script listeners. We have with us today, Nisha Jr., Associate Professor of Religion at Temple University, who has been with Onscript before discussing her book Womanist Biblical Interpretation.

She will be visiting faculty at Harvard University in the coming academic year and is the author of a new book

reimagining Hagar, Blackness and Bible, published by Oxford University Press.

Naisha, welcome back.

Thank you.

I read recently, going to get to the important stuff here right at the beginning, that you

started taking Brazilian jiu-jitsu.

Now, I assume that the,

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