{"product_id":"delivered-out-of-empire-pivotal-moments-in-the-book-of-exodus-part-one-9780664265380","title":"Delivered Out of Empire: Pivotal Moments in the Book of Exodus, Part One","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Pivotal Moments in the Old Testament Series helps readers see Scripture with new eyes, highlighting short, key texts--\"pivotal moments\"--that shift our expectations and invite us to turn toward another reality transformed by God's purposes and action.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book of Exodus brims with dramatic stories familiar to most of us: the burning bush, Moses' ringing proclamation to Pharaoh to \"Let my people go,\" the parting of the Red Sea. These signs of God's liberating agency have sustained oppressed people seeking deliverance over the ages. But Exodus is also a complex book. Reading the text firsthand, one encounters multilayered narratives: about entrenched socioeconomic systems that exploit the vulnerable, the mysterious action of the divine, and the giving of a new law meant to set the people of Israel apart. How does a contemporary reader make sense of it all? And what does Exodus have to say about our own systems of domination and economic excess?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eDelivered out of Empire\u003c\/em\u003e, Walter Brueggemann offers a guide to the first half of Exodus, drawing out \"pivotal moments\" in the text to help readers untangle it. Throughout, Brueggemann shows how Exodus consistently reveals a God in radical solidarity with the powerless.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBrueggemann, Walter:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWalter Brueggemann\u003c\/strong\u003e is William Marcellus McPheeters Professor Emeritus of Old Testament at Columbia Theological Seminary. An ordained minister in the United Church of Christ, he is the author of dozens of books, including \u003cem\u003eSabbath as Resistance: Saying No to the Culture of Now\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003e Interrupting Silence: God's Command to Speak Out\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eTruth and Hope: Essays for a Perilous Age\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Westminster John Knox Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50443658723602,"sku":"9780664265380","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_26facf8d-ca67-489c-8673-cc31357b72fa.jpg?v=1729674989","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/delivered-out-of-empire-pivotal-moments-in-the-book-of-exodus-part-one-9780664265380","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}