Exodus and Emancipation: Essays & Reflections on the Bible and African-American Slavery by Kenneth Chelst

Excerpts

Journey to Slavery: Brother selling brother and tribe selling tribe were initiating events in both the Israelite and the African journey into slavery.

Slave Experience: "We were slaves to Pharaoh in Egypt" (Deuteronomy 6:21) succinctly articulates the nature of the slave experience of the Israelites

Journey to Freedom: The Exodus from Egypt was the defining experience in the formation of the Israelite nation and the establishment of its special responsibility toward God.

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Reviews

"Dr. Kenneth Chelst, a distinguished academic, and a wide ranging and profound scholar of Jewish thought has produced a compelling and utterly original study comparing the biblical account of the enslaved Israelites with the experience of African-American slavery. Dr. Chelst, it would seem, has read and considered everything of consequence that has been written on both subjects, and Exodus and Emancipation is filled with page after page of stunning and illuminating insights."

Rabbi Joseph Telushkin
author of Jewish Literacy and
A Code of Jewish Ethics: You Shall be Holy

In recognition of the generous patronage of Flora S. Hoffman, this book is dedicated to her memory and the loving memory of her dearly beloved parents Meyer and Bessie Beckman and cherished memory of her dearly beloved daughter Myra Jacqueline Hoffman, "gone but not forgotten."