Hey friends welcome back to another episode of theology in the round my guest today is Dr Katie McCoy who serves as director of women's ministry at the Baptist general convention of Texas.

She also has a PhD in systematic theology and a research focuses on

Old Testament laws about women and justice for the vulnerable, which is the

topic of our conversation today. We dive into some of those tough Old Testament laws

that seem very misogynistic,

but on closer examination,

especially in light of the ancient Near East context, not the modern Western context.

There is more that meets the eye. Katie also recently released her book,

to be a woman, the confusion over female identity and how

Christians can respond which came out last June and we do talk about that

toward the end of the podcast but we do spend a bulk of our time talking about her

PhD research with Old Testament laws and how they treat women.

So please welcome back to the show for the second time, the one and onlyy McCoy. Katie McCoy. Katie was on the podcast just a couple months ago with two other guests talking about theological

anthropology and offline right before we went into that episode Katie do you remember you told

me just a snapshot of your

kind of PhD research I'm like oh my word I'm very interested in that topic so

then right when I we got done I shot you an email said can you come back on to talk

about that so that's where we're at right now. So thanks,

Katie, for coming on the Alden Ra yet again.

Yeah, thanks for having me.

So I really want to talk about, for some reason, I'm very interested in understanding the present, how do I even word it?

The presentation of women in the Old Testament.

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