Set Them Free
The Other Side of Exodus
Published on 15. October 2014
270 pages
978-1-7252-3502-1 (ISBN)
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A fresh look at the Exodus story that opens our eyes to injustice in today's world.
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Laurel Dykstra is an Anglican priest and community-based activist and scholar in Vancouver, British Columbia. She is the author of Set Them Free: The Other Side of Exodus (2002) and coeditor of Liberating Biblical Study (Cascade Books, 2011).
Content
- COVER
- TITLE PAGE
- COPYRIGHT
- DEDICATION
- CONTENTS
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- INTRODUCTION
- Part One READING EXODUS
- 1 HISTORY, LITERATURE, AND STORY: An Introduction to Modern Biblical Criticism
- HISTORY AND THE BIBLE
- WHO WROTE THE BIBLE?
- THE BIBLE AS LITERATURE
- THE BIBLE AS SACRED STORY
- 2 READING EXODUS AS ISRAEL: Identification with Election
- READING THE BIBLE IN ENGLISH
- INTRODUCTION TO EXODUS
- RETELLING EXODUS
- LATIN AMERICAN LIBERATION THEOLOGY
- LATIN AMERICAN READINGS OF EXODUS
- BLACK THEOLOGY
- COMPARING LIBERATION THEOLOGIES
- LIBERATION READINGS OF EXODUS
- 3 PROSTITUTES, SLAVES, AND CANAANITES: Another Side of Exodus
- LIBERATION READINGS CHALLENGED
- READING EXODUS IN THE FIRST WORLD
- READING THE TEXT WRONG
- READING FOR OUR LIVES
- PART TWO: BEING READ BY EXODUS
- 4 EGYPT AS EMPIRE
- EGYPT IN HISTORY
- EGYPT IN THE BIBLE
- BEGINNING TO READ AS EGYPT
- FIRST WORLD, THIRD WORLD, AND BIBLICAL WORLD
- EMPIRE, PAST AND PRESENT
- VIOLENCE OF EXPLOITATION
- SLAVERY
- GENOCIDE
- LYING AND DECEIT
- CAN WE CHANGE?
- 5 EGYPT THE LAND
- THE LAND OF EGYPT
- PLAGUE NARRATIVES
- INTRODUCTION TO ECOFEMINISM
- AN ECOFEMINIST READING OF THE PLAGUE NARRATIVES
- MODERN PARALLELS AND APPLICATIONS
- 6 PHARAOHA: Hardened Heart
- THE PHARAOHS OF EGYPT
- PHARAOH OF THE PROLOGUE
- THE BUILDING BLOCKS OF EMPIRE
- FIRST-WORLD HEARTS
- 7 VIOLENCE, DESTRUCTION, HATRED AND JUDGMENT
- VIOLENCE IN EXODUS
- CHARIOTS, A SYMBOL OF EMPIRE AND CONQUEST
- MIDRASH
- USTIFICATION FOR GOD'S VIOLENCE
- PROTESTING A VIOLENT GOD
- UNDERSTANDING THE VIOLENCE IN EXODUS
- CONCLUSION: READING VIOLENT STORIES
- 8 PHARAOH'S DAUGHTER, DAUGHTER OF GOD
- THE TEXT
- CONTEXT-STEPPING OUT OF THE TEXT
- STEPPING BACK INTO THE TEXT
- CONCLUSION
- 9 SHIPHRAH AND PUAH:The Power of Refusal
- MIDWIVES OF THE HEBREWS
- THE TEXT
- CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE
- CONCLUSION
- 10 OTHER EGYPTIANS
- MOSES THE EGYPTIAN
- OTHER EGYPTIANS
- CONCLUSION
- PART THREE BEYOND EXODUS
- 11 SETTING THE PEOPLE FREE: A Commissioning
- A REVIEW
- WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE?
- IN CLOSING
- NOTES
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX
