To make the biblical narrative fit the story of African diasporic displacement, several contextual elements must be ignored. The Hebrew people make a pilgrimage from the bondage of Africa to liberation. Africans make a pilgrimage from freedom in the motherland to bondage in the Americas. The Israelites regard Egypt as the house of bondage; Africana people regard Egypt as a center of higher learning and the locus of spiritual refuge for Jesus, Mary, and Joseph. Egypt is all of this and more.
