hermeneutics professor will tell you we bring so much more than our Greek and Hebrew analytics to the text; we also bring our ethnicity (and other lenses such as gender, class, and culture). As a black man, I pause when I see that Jesus was taken to Africa as a baby for refuge (Matthew 2:13–18). My blackness will not allow me to gloss over the Ethiopian man whom Philip cozies up to in Acts 8:26–39, or the fact that Moses, the legendary liberator and lawgiver, marries a black woman (Exodus 2:21).