The not­ed polit­i­cal philoso­pher, Michael Walz­er offers a mov­ing med­i­ta­tion on the polit­i­cal mean­ings of the bib­li­cal sto­ry of Exo­dus — from oppres­sion to deliv­er­ance and the promised land. ​“An impor­tant book.… Walz­er shows the real pow­er of the Exo­dus sto­ry as a polit­i­cal doc­u­ment an con­vinc­ing­ly demon­strate how it has shaped lat­er think­ing about rev­o­lu­tion­ary alter­na­tives”. — Robert Alter, Pro­fes­sor of Hebrew and Com­par­a­tive Lit­er­a­ture, Uni­ver­si­ty of Cal­i­for­nia, Berkeley