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

Brueggemann, Walter

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0800630874 ISBN 13: 9780800630874

Publisher: Augsburg Fortress, 1997

Synopsis

In this powerful book, Walter Brueggemann moves the discussion of Old Testament theology beyond the dominant models of Walter Eichrodt in the 1930s and Gerhard von Rad in the 1950s.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

Review:

"This book will undoubtedly become a milestone in the field of Old Testament theology."

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Augsburg Fortress
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0800630874
• ISBN 13: 9780800630874
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 800