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Theology of the Old Testament : testimony, dispute, advocacy / Walter Brueggemann.

By: Material type: TextPublication details: Minneapolis : Fortress Press, ©1997.Description: xxi, 777 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0800630874
  • 9780800630874
  • 0800699319
  • 9780800699314
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Online version:: Theology of the Old Testament.; Online version:: Theology of the Old Testament.DDC classification:
  • 230.0411 BRU 22
LOC classification:
  • BS1192.5 .B79 1997
Contents:
Retrospect I: from the beginning to the end of a generative period -- Retrospect 2: the contemporary situation -- pt. 1. Israel's core testimony. Israel's practice of testimony -- Testimony in verbal sentences -- Adjectives: Yahweh with characteristic markings -- Nouns: Yahweh as constant -- Yahweh fully uttered -- pt. 2. Israel's countertestimony. Cross-examining Israel's core testimony -- The hiddenness of Yahweh -- Ambiguity and the character of Yahweh -- Yahweh and negativity -- Maintaining the tension -- pt. 3. Israel's unsolicited testimony. Israel's unsolicited testimony -- Israel as Yahweh's partner -- he human person as Yahweh's partner -- The nations as Yahweh's partner -- Creation as Yahweh's partner -- The drama of partnership with Yahweh -- pt. 4. Israel's embodied testimony. Mediating the presence of Yahweh -- The Torah as mediator -- The king as mediator -- The prophet as mediator -- The cult as mediator -- Modes of mediation and life with Yahweh -- pt. 5. Prospects for theological interpretation. Interpretation in a pluralistic context -- The constitutive power of Israel's testimony -- Some pervasive issues -- Moving toward true speech.
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Retrospect I: from the beginning to the end of a generative period -- Retrospect 2: the contemporary situation -- pt. 1. Israel's core testimony. Israel's practice of testimony -- Testimony in verbal sentences -- Adjectives: Yahweh with characteristic markings -- Nouns: Yahweh as constant -- Yahweh fully uttered -- pt. 2. Israel's countertestimony. Cross-examining Israel's core testimony -- The hiddenness of Yahweh -- Ambiguity and the character of Yahweh -- Yahweh and negativity -- Maintaining the tension -- pt. 3. Israel's unsolicited testimony. Israel's unsolicited testimony -- Israel as Yahweh's partner -- he human person as Yahweh's partner -- The nations as Yahweh's partner -- Creation as Yahweh's partner -- The drama of partnership with Yahweh -- pt. 4. Israel's embodied testimony. Mediating the presence of Yahweh -- The Torah as mediator -- The king as mediator -- The prophet as mediator -- The cult as mediator -- Modes of mediation and life with Yahweh -- pt. 5. Prospects for theological interpretation. Interpretation in a pluralistic context -- The constitutive power of Israel's testimony -- Some pervasive issues -- Moving toward true speech.

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