christopher spolar

“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”
― Walter Brueggemann, Truth Speaks to Power: The Countercultural Nature of Scripture

“the church is, in my judgment, called to its public vocation to practice neighborliness in a way that includes both support of policies of distributive justice and practices of face-to-face restorative generosity.”
― Walter Brueggemann, Truth Speaks to Power: The Countercultural Nature of Scripture

“This story begins wherever there is enough courage and freedom and daring and sensibility to acknowledge that the pain of ruthless exploitation is not normal and cannot be borne.”
― Walter Brueggemann, Truth Speaks to Power: The Countercultural Nature of Scripture

“he is never named because he could have been any one of a number of candidates, or all of them. Because if you have seen one pharaoh, you have seen them all. They all act the same way in their greedy, uncaring, violent self-sufficiency.”
― Walter Brueggemann, Truth Speaks to Power: The Countercultural Nature of Scripture