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Old Testament Theology: Essays on Structure, Theme, and Text

Old Testament Theology

Essays on Structure, Theme, and Text

Walter Brueggemann (Author), Patrick D. Miller (Editor)

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In these essays, Walter Brueggemann addresses the necessity for thinking about the shape and structure of Old Testament theology—and for the impact such thinking can have on the larger issues of contemporary life.

Brueggemann draws on the work of persons from all disciplines and incorporates them in a seminal way in his theology. The work of persons in theology, psychology, the social sciences, politics, and the like often provides heuristic possibilities and even basic models for talking about the Old Testament. The Old Testament is seen to be something that has intelligible and significant worldly connections.
  • Publisher Fortress Press
  • Format Paperback
  • ISBN 9780800625375
  • Dimensions 5.44 x 8.44
  • Pages 336
  • Publication Date February 1, 1992

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"Brueggemann draws on the work of persons from all disciplines and incorporates them in his theology ... The Old Testament is seen to be something that has intelligible and significant connections to all sorts of things in this world."
— Patrick D. Miller Jr.

Table of Contents

    Acknowledgments
    Abbreviations
    Introduction

  1. A Shape for Old Testament Theology, I: Structure Legitimation

  2. A Shape for Old Testament Theology, II: Embrace of Pain

  3. The Rhetoric of Hurt and Hope: Ethics Odd and Crucial

  4. Bodied Faith and the Body Politic

  5. A Convergence in Recent Old Testament Theologies

  6. Futures in Old Testament Theology

  7. Old Testament Theology as a Particular Conversation: Adjudication of Israel's Sociotheological Alternatives

  8. The Crisis and Promise of Presence in Israel

  9. A Shattered Transcendence? Exile and Restoration

  10. Genesis 50:15-21—A Theological Exploration

  11. 1 Samuel 1—A Sense of a Beginning

  12. 2 Samuel 21-24—An Appendix of Deconstruction?

  13. Unity and Dynamic in the Isaiah Tradition

  14. The Epistemological Crisis of Israel's Two Histories (Jeremiah 9:22-23)

  15. The "Uncared For" Now Cared For (Jeremiah 30:12-17): A Methodological Consideration

    Credits
    Scripture Index
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