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Walter Brueggemann and Brevard S. Childs · 2023
A scholarly work examining Old Testament theology through two complementary approaches: Brevard Childs's treatment of canon as the authoritative framework for theological interpretation, and Walter Brueggemann's emphasis on Israel's testimony as constitutive for theological meaning.
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What this book knows
Israel's witness to Yahweh lives in testimony and countertestimony — a polyphonic, elusive canon that resists every closing system.
faith-and-doubt
'You are my witnesses, says the Lord' — Israel's singular vocation is to attest Yahweh as the only God, besides whom there is no other.
OTTC-RC-073Israel voices its vexation toward Yahweh, presenting itself as champion of justice on which Yahweh has reneged — theodic protest without apology.
OTTC-RC-065obedience-and-authority
Testimony is not easy talk; it is an elemental decision to reorder community life with an entirely different set of risks and possibilities.
OTTC-RC-072Theological interpretation must host testimony in all its oddness, engaged in practice and obedience, in protest and complaint, with its whole life.
OTTC-RC-069self-and-identity
The Old Testament's polyphonic, elusive testimony resists reduction to any single construal — its generative openness must not be closed by christological exclusivism.
OTTC-RC-058The 'scandal of particularity' — Creator self-disclosed in the odd, concrete ways of Jewishness — is what Christian Old Testament theology must not scuttle.
OTTC-RC-056Illuminates
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