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

by Walter Brueggemann, Patrick D. Miller

Overview

In these essays, Walter Brueggemann addresses the necessity for thinking about the shape and structure of Old Testament theologyand 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780800625375
Publisher:	1517 Media
Publication date:	02/01/1992
Pages:	336
Product dimensions:	5.44(w) x 8.44(h) x 0.88(d)

About the Author

Walter Brueggemann is William Marcellus McPheeters Professor Emeritus of Old Testament at Columbia Theological Seminary. An ordained minister in the United Church of Christ, he is regarded as the premier Old Testament interpreter and biblical theologian of today. Among his many publications are Prophetic Imagination and Old Testament Theology.

Patrick D. Miller is Charles T. Haley Professor of Old Testament Theology at Princeton Theological Seminary and the author of two Fortress Press volumes: They Cried to the Lord: The Form and Theology of Biblical Prayer (1994) and Interpreting the Psalms (1986).

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Introduction

A Shape for Old Testament Theology, I: Structure Legitimation

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

The Rhetoric of Hurt and Hope: Ethics Odd and Crucial

Bodied Faith and the Body Politic

A Convergence in Recent Old Testament Theologies

Futures in Old Testament Theology

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

The Crisis and Promise of Presence in Israel

A Shattered Transcendence? Exile and Restoration

Genesis 50:15-21-A Theological Exploration

1 Samuel 1-A Sense of a Beginning

2 Samuel 21-24-An Appendix of Deconstruction?

Unity and Dynamic in the Isaiah Tradition

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

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

Credits

Scripture Index

What People are Saying About This

Patrick D. Miller, Jr.

The Old Testament is seen to be something that has intelligible and significant connections to all sorts of things in this world.

Editorial Reviews

We cannot but hope the present volume indeed constitutes a prolegomena to Brueggemann's full-scale theology of the OT. If these essays are any indication, the scholarly world is in for a real feast....These texts make claims that are of great urgency in our common life." That sense of urgency permeates this excellent monograph. I anxiously await Brueggemann's full-blown theology of the OT.
— Society of Biblical Literature

Jerry A. Gladson