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Walter Brueggemann: Silence and the Prophetic Imagination (Part One)

Encountering Silence

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The Importance of Silence in Hebrew Poetry

The extreme manifestation of that are holy rollers who break out in all kinds of speech. And I suspect people who do that are people who most of their socioeconomic political circumstance have to keep silent, except when they get in this meeting where the voices break out. So it's a very different kind of silence, which historically, of course, has been very generative.

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