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73.3 - Walter Brueggemann on Justice from Below & Brad Strawn as Confession as Justice

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The Old Testament Is an Act of Imagination About a Transformed Alternative to the Predatory Regime of Pharaoh

The main source of slavery in the ancient world, like massive incarceration, these people couldn't pay their debts. They got into slavery because they could not resist the predatory practice of injustice. The narrative of scarcity, anxiety, accumulation, and monopoly will always end what? In violence. So that photograph of that man running from the fire of the police car that was up here this morning is about Pharaoh's story that ends in violence. He is utterly dispensable because he is a non-productive member of the predatory economy.

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