The "Weekly Free Book" (was "Free Friday") from Wordsearch Bible is a good one this week. It's the
Philemon volume of the
New International Commentary on the New Testament published by Eerdmans. In addition to verse-by-verse textual commentary, the volume includes several chapters addressing the relationship between slavery, Christianity, and the Bible. Chapter 2 opens thus:
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The richest country in the world, the USA, hoisted itself above all others by standing on the backs of black slaves—Africans were bought or captured and then transported under unimaginable conditions. The leitmotif of America’s founders was liberty, but that proud theme was hypocritically blind to the enslavement of its working class.
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[McKnight, Scot (2018). NICNT: The Letter to Philemon (p. 30). Wordsearch. Retrieved from
https://app.wordsearchbible.com.]
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