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Ichabod toward Home: The Journey of God’s Glory is unavailable, but you can change that!

Offering a unique entry into Old Testament theology, Walter Brueggemann examines 1 Samuel 4–6, the biblical text in which the ark of God is captured by the Philistines, seen to be a dangerous threat, and finally returned to Israel. In looking anew at what this story reveals about God’s glory, Brueggemann builds a powerful new theology of God’s sovereignty.

2. The double use of exile (glh) in verses 21–22 inescapably must be taken as an allusion to 6th-century exile, surely the defining lived reality of Old Testament Israel.9 There is now great uneasiness about the term “exile” among those scholars who do ideology-critique because, it is said, the term is not historically accurate but is a self-serving ideological mantra among a small party of elites.10 Perhaps; but it is difficult to imagine this nameless woman among such elites. In any case, this
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