Karin's American Conversations Blog: Exodus to America: "Last night I went to the first showing of a new series on TPT called 'God in America'. (DeAne, thanks for setting this up, it was a lot of f..."
Thanks to Karin for this important connection between the Puritans and the story of Exodus. Not only scholars say this, the people themselves thought of themselves as the New Israel. They were not the last Americans to understand themselves on the basis of this biblical narrative. Maybe it is another sort of "playing"--playing at being the Israelites led by Moses and freed by God for a special purpose.
Two other links to our course. The first segment of the first episode focused on the SouthWest and included comments by a resident of the Santa Clara Pueblo. Later the same episode offered us a reenactment of Anne Hutchinson's trial based on the transcript. The actor who portrayed John Winthrop was creepy.
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