Set Them Free: The Other Side of Exodus

A fresh look at the Exodus story that opens our eyes to injustice in todays world. A remarkable book of contextual biblical studies . . . Dykstras subject is the story of Exodus not as told by the slaves but from the perspective of the Egyptian empire. There she finds a haunting mirror of North American culture of its oppression self-aggrandizement and brutal racism. The result is a splendid work of public theology. --Kathleen M. OConnor Columbia Theological Seminary The late Robert McAfee Brown used to worry about how we North American Christians with our vantage point from within Pharaohs household might legitimately respond to Third World liberation theologys appropriation of the Exodus story. Now from the heart of the Catholic Worker movement comes just such a reading and it is fresh literate and deeply engaged. A sophisticated and compelling project. --Ched Myers author Binding the Strong Man Prophetic critical and passionate. Never before has there been a volume that offers such a profound critical theological and social reflection on a biblical text the world that shaped it and the contemporary community who now reads it . . . This book is one of the best that I have read in a long long time. --Carol Dempsey editor Theology and Sacred Scripture Laurel Dykstra is an Anglican priest community-based activist and scholar in Vancouver BC. She is coeditor of Liberating Biblical Study (Cascade 2011).