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Promised Land

In the presence of native Americans who lost their land to invaders, I took a new interest in those forgotten peoples of the Bible who were dispossessed by the fulfillment of God’s promise to the Israelites to give them “a land flowing with milk and honey

By Bernhard W. Anderson

Last summer I took part in a seminar sponsored by the Native Ministries Consortium of Vancouver, British Columbia. This was my first experience teaching the Bible to native peoples from Canada, the United States and other countries. Walking in their moccasins, so to speak, and trying to see through their eyes gave me a new appreciation of the difficulty and challenge of interpreting the Bible in the modern world. In one study we considered the theme of the promise to the ancestors of Israel: the theme announced in the opening verses of Genesis 12 and developed in the remainder […]

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Endnotes

1.

Wendell Berry, The Gift of Good Land: Further Essays Cultural and Agricultural (San Francisco: North Point, 1982), 167–281.

2.

Berry, The Gift of Good Land, p. 169.

3.

Berry, The Gift of Good Land, p. 170.