Theology of the Old Testament: Testimony, Dispute, Advocacy - Softcover

Brueggemann, Walter

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0800699319 ISBN 13: 9780800699314

Publisher: Fortress Press, 2012

Synopsis

In this powerful book, Walter Brueggemann moves the discussion of Old Testament theology beyond the dominant models of previous generations.

Brueggemann focuses on the metaphor and imagery of the courtroom trial in order to regard the theological substance of the Old Testament as a series of claims asserted for Yahweh, the God of Israel. This provides a context that attends to pluralism in every dimension of the interpretive process and suggests links to the plurality of voices of our time.

About this title

About the Author:

Professor Brueggemann, who holds the Th.D. from Union Seminary, New York, and the Ph.D. from St. Louis University, is William Marcellus McPheeters Professor of Old Testament at Columbia Theological Seminary, Decatur, Georgia. He was previously Professor of Old Testament at Eden Theological Seminary, St. Louis. His many Fortress Press books, including The Threat of Life: Sermons on Pain, Power, and Weakness (1996), exhibit a fecund combination of imaginative power, sound scholarship, and a passion of justice and redemption.

Review:

"Walter Brueggemann shows that Old Testament theology is alive and well... This monumental endeavor offers an abundance of ideas that will carry Old Testament theology well into the twenty-first century." --Phyllis Trible

About this edition

• Publisher: Fortress Press
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0800699319
• ISBN 13: 9780800699314
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 800
• Editor: Gaudino Rebecca J. Kruger