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Cadences of Home: Preaching among Exiles QUOTES

Cadences of Home: Preaching among Exiles QUOTES

1 " The most remarkable observation one can make about this interface of exilic circumstance and scriptural resource is this: Exile did not lead Jews in the Old Testament to abandon faith or to settle for abdicating despair, nor to retreat to privatistic religion. On the contrary, exile evoked the most brilliant literature and the most daring theological articulation in the Old Testament. "

― Walter Brueggemann , Cadences of Home: Preaching among Exiles