The Law is the Torah (the Pentateuch), the first five books of the Bible. At the center of the Torah is ancient Israel’s story of the exodus. You all know this, but we need to help people understand the significance of this. The story of the exodus is what the Old Testament scholar Walter Brueggemann calls Israel’s primal narrative—its originating narrative—and also its most important story. And what is that story about? It’s about liberation from economic and political bondage and the creation of an alternative community marked by no monarchy, no elites, and a passion for economic justice as
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