“At the center of the requirements of the scroll is the provision for “the year of release,” the elimination of debt after seven years (Deut. 15:1–18).5 This teaching requires that at the end of six years, debts that remain unpaid… — Walter Brueggemann Copy Share Image
“It is astonishing that critical scholarship has asked forever about the identification of these store-house cities, but without ever asking about the skewed exploitative social relationships between owner and laborers that the project exhibits. The store-house cities are an ancient… — Walter Brueggemann Copy Share Image
“In the end, ethical interpretation of the Bible means to think critically about how our practices of textual engagement might help us to become… — Walter Brueggemann Copy Share Image
The world for which you have been so carefully prepared is being taken away from you, by the grace of God. — Walter Brueggemann Copy Share Image
Every imperial agent wants to reduce what is possible to what is available. — Walter Brueggemann Copy Share Image
“The outcome is to delegitimize and deconstruct the kings in effective ways in order to show that while they occupy the forms of power,… — Walter Brueggemann Copy Share Image
The church meets to imagine what our lives can be like if the gospel were true. — Walter Brueggemann Copy Share Image
“Pharaoh is clearly a metaphor. He embodies and represents raw, absolute, worldly power. He is, like Pilate after him, a stand-in for the whole… — Walter Brueggemann Copy Share Image
“The news enacted by Elisha is reperformed by Jesus. It is, subsequently, performed in many other venues, sometimes by the followers of Jesus, sometimes… — Walter Brueggemann Copy Share Image
People notice peacemakers because they dress funny. We know how the people who make war dress - in uniforms and medals, or in computers… — Walter Brueggemann Copy Share Image
“Only those who embrace the reality of death will receive the new life. Implicit in his statement is that those who do not mourn… — Walter Brueggemann Copy Share Image
“The truth that is variously enacted by such agents is not an idea or a proposition. It is rather a habit of life that… — Walter Brueggemann Copy Share Image
“The same subversion of power by truth is evident in the way in which Luke begins his account of Jesus of Nazareth. Luke is… — Walter Brueggemann Copy Share Image
We now know that human transformation does not happen through didacticism or through excessive certitude, but through the playful entertainment of another scripting of… — Walter Brueggemann Copy Share Image
“It occurs to me that the situation of the church in our society, perhaps the church everywhere always, is entrusted with a truth that… — Walter Brueggemann Copy Share Image
The gospel is fiction when judged by the empire, but the empire is fiction when judged by the gospel. — Walter Brueggemann Copy Share Image
Hope requires a very careful symbolization. It must not be expressed too fully in the present tense because hope one can touch and handle… — Walter Brueggemann Copy Share Image
