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Deliverance from Slavery : Attempting a Biblical Theology in the Service of Liberation.

Boer, Dick.

Deliverance from Slavery : Attempting a Biblical Theology in the Service of Liberation. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (306 pages) - Historical Materialism Book Series ; v.110 . - Historical Materialism Book Series .

Intro -- Contents -- Translator's Note -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Text and Context -- Chapter 2. Canon -- Chapter 3. Exodus -- Chapter 4. Covenant -- Chapter 5. Creation -- Chapter 6. Anthropology (Gn 2-4) -- Chapter 7. Entry -- Chapter 8. The Real Israel -- Postscript 1. Paul and the Messianic Community -- Postscript 2. Though He Liberated Others, He Could Not Liberate Himself -- References -- Index of Authors -- Index of Biblical References.

The present work argues that biblical theology is the attempt to 'update' the 'language of the message'. It is the work of translation: it searches for a language that attends to the concerns of today's world while 'preserving' the concerns that originally motivated biblical language.

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Bible-Theology.
Liberty-Biblical teaching.
Philosophy, Marxist.
Liberation theology.


Electronic books.

BS680.F7 .B647 2016

230/.041

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