@brianmclaren 1/3 Thank you for this, Brian. Here, with respect to Palestine, the Shoah and others, Brueggemann: "The kings would do everything but grieve, for that is the ultimate criticism and the decisive announcement of dismantling. Clearly, only those who anguish will sing new songs."
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Copy of tweet here: An ongoing, inter-generational cycle of violence and trauma born directly of an inter-generational cycle of violence and trauma against world Jewry. A universal, global, trans-cultural pattern of violence and trauma, repeating itself. Where does it end?
5/ “...The newness does not come without anguish, pain, and tears. The tears are for the last desperate destructiveness by the king to save himself. And they are for the victims of that ending because the king will not die alone; he will take with him..." Brueggemann
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