An Introduction to the Old Testament, Third Edition: The Canon and Christian ImaginationWestminster John Knox Press, 2021 M01 5 - 512 pages In this updated edition of the popular textbook An Introduction to the Old Testament, Walter Brueggemann and Tod Linafelt introduce the reader to the broad theological scope of the Old Testament, treating some of the most important issues and methods in contemporary biblical interpretation. This clearly written textbook focuses on the literature of the Old Testament as it grew out of religious, political, and ideological contexts over many centuries in Israel's history. Covering every book in the Old Testament (arranged in canonical order), the authors demonstrate the development of theological concepts in biblical writings from the Torah through postexilic Judaism. Incorporating the most current scholarship, this new edition also includes concrete tips for doing close readings of the Old Testament text, and a chapter on ways to read Scripture and respond in light of pressing contemporary issues, such as economic inequality, racial and gender justice, and environmental degradation. This introduction invites readers to engage in the construction of meaning as they venture into these timeless texts. |
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... Poetry: The Literary Art of the Old Testament 17 PART I: THE TORAH 3. Introduction to the Torah 4. Genesis 1–11: Cosmic Miracles in Contradiction 5. Genesis 12–50: The Ancestors 6. The Book of Exodus 7. The Book of Leviticus 8. The Book ...
... poetry, respectively. There has lately been a great surge of interest in the literary workings of the Bible, but too often the very real differences between these two large genres have been flattened or ignored. Biblical prose narrative ...
... poetic books of Psalms, Job, and Proverbs The Five Scrolls: Ruth, Esther, Ecclesiastes, Lamentations, and the Song of Songs A revisionist historical corpus of 1 and 2 Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah A single apocalyptic scroll, Daniel ...
... poetry of Job or in the metaphors of Jeremiah, we are offered “limit expressions” that render the “limit experiences” of the generation that offers its testimony and that invites “limit experiences” in the listening generation that ...
... closure or by rationalistic impatience—one misses the world “strange and new” that is generously, with recurring surprise, given in the Scriptures. 2 Narrative and Poetry The Literary Art of the Old Imaginative Remembering 15.
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An Introduction to the Old Testament, Third Edition: The Canon and Christian ... Walter Brueggemann,Tod Linafelt No preview available - 2020 |