?Delivery from slavery ?: these words, taken from a Dutch labour movement song, perfectly map onto the Bible ?s central concern. They are also similar to the Torah ?s key phrase: ?I am YHWH, your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the house of bondage' (Ex 20:2). The words are invoked here to serve as an axiom to be introduced into the modern period. The watchword ?delivery from slavery ? translates the biblical message of the exodus from slavery into the theory and practice of a modern liberation movement. The present work argues that biblical theology is the attempt to ?update ? the ?language of the message ?. It searches for a language that attends to the concerns of today ?s world while ?preserving ? the concerns that originally motivated biblical language.