Words That Testify of God: The Theology of the Old Testament by Walter Brueggemann
Walter Brueggemann crafts a First Testament theology around the organizing principle of Israel's speech about God. He discusses the themes of First Testament thought in four categories: Israel's Core Testimony, Israel's Countertestimony, Israel's Unsolicited Testimony, and Embodi...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Sage
2001
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Biblical theology bulletin
Year: 2001, Volume: 31, Issue: 3, Pages: 90-95 |
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Summary: | Walter Brueggemann crafts a First Testament theology around the organizing principle of Israel's speech about God. He discusses the themes of First Testament thought in four categories: Israel's Core Testimony, Israel's Countertestimony, Israel's Unsolicited Testimony, and Embodied Narrative. He attempts to generate a dynamic theology that captures the rhetorical power of the biblical text. With his own classic style he theologizes excellently on the text in a mode designed to address the needs of theologians, teachers, and preachers, more so than critical scholars. He eschews the Historical Critical Method in favor of post-modern criticism, which this reviewer feels is a mistake. |
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ISSN: | 1945-7596 |
Contains: | Enthalten in: Biblical theology bulletin
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/014610790103100303 |