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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... question. For one thing the story goes its own way and takes us with it; the storyteller is inventing, not copying. He weaves his own web of happening and the meaning of every part and detail is determined by the whole sequence. We lose ...
... questions to be asked and the answers to be given. That general consensus managed, in an odd way, to keep together a deep grounding in faith (“Christian” faith, since the critical scholarship of that era was undertaken primarily by ...
... question is not an easy one and is not served by any compromise of Christian faith or by any patronizing of Jews. Second, the phrase “Old Testament” is unfortunately too often understood as an affirmation of “supersessionism” (the idea ...
... experience of historical Israel (see Bright 2000; Hayes and Miller 1986). Within recent decades, however, the emergence of new critical methods, together with fresh perspectives and new questions, have led Imaginative Remembering 5.
... questions, have led many critical scholars to conclude that the story line given in the Old Testament is itself no reliable guide for “what happened.” What we have in the Old Testament, rather than reportage, is a sustained memory that ...
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An Introduction to the Old Testament, Third Edition: The Canon and Christian ... Walter Brueggemann,Tod Linafelt No preview available - 2020 |