{"id":8164,"date":"2018-11-29T20:01:22","date_gmt":"2018-11-30T02:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=8164"},"modified":"2018-11-29T20:05:34","modified_gmt":"2018-11-30T02:05:34","slug":"echoes-of-exodus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=8164","title":{"rendered":"ECHOES OF EXODUS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Echoes of Exodus: Tracing Themes of Redemption through Scripture\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"625\" height=\"550\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen allow=\"clipboard-write\" style=\"max-width:100%\" src=\"https:\/\/read.amazon.com\/kp\/card?asin=B079XVRHR8\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<div><strong>I get to read quite a bit.\u00a0 At the age of sixty, I get a bit impatient when books are long, or frankly much longer than they need to be.\u00a0 Some long books I am happy to read like the latest works of Jill Lepore and David Blight.\u00a0 Both of theirs come in at about 800 pages, but are the kind you are a bit sad to finish.\u00a0 Unfortunately, most writers aren&#8217;t the wordsmiths of these two gifted historians.<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><strong><em>Echoes of Exodus<\/em> is on the other side of the length ledger as it is quite short: less than 150 pages of text.\u00a0 Many shorter books could have made good essays.\u00a0 <em>Echoes of Exodus<\/em> is not one of them.\u00a0 It is clear and engaging.\u00a0 Even though there are two authors, it flows nicely.<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><strong>There are many keen insights throughout this fine book.\u00a0 It is the kind of book that shows all of us Bible readers that there are more riches in store for the careful reader of Scripture.<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Highly recommended!<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"yj6qo\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"adL\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I get to read quite a bit.\u00a0 At the age of sixty, I get a bit impatient when books are long, or frankly much longer than they need to be.\u00a0 Some long books I am happy to read like the latest works of Jill Lepore and David Blight.\u00a0 Both of theirs come in at about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bible","category-book-review"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8164"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8172,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8164\/revisions\/8172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}