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The Role of Old Testament Theology in Old Testament Interpretation: And Other Essays

Walter Brueggemann · 2015

A collection of nine essays by Walter Brueggemann on Old Testament theological interpretation, examining biblical passages, themes, and methodological issues through exegetical analysis. The work reflects Brueggemann's contributions to Festschrift volumes honoring senior scholars in the field.

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What this book knows

Old Testament theology does its truest work by holding together Israel's real abandonment by God and God's surprising fidelity across exile and restoration.

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faith-and-doubt

the abandonment of God is real and decisive, albeit brief… the God evidenced in Easter is decisively different from the God who abandons on Friday
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the Exile becomes the place where the character of God turns in a quite fresh direction… the husband makes two quite distinct assertions
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Yahweh may not be, in a 'truer' canonical understanding, a God who abandons. But this… belongs to the density of Yahweh's character
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Nebuchadnezzar, the King of Babylon, my servant… that is more than kings can take and more than the royal consciousness can ever receive
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our preferred theological formulations… may be incongruous with the oddness of Yahweh, whose liberating intentions may be allied with many forms of human life other than our own
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exile and restoration as an imaginative construct exercised enormous impact on subsequent Christian understandings of faith and life recast in crucifixion and resurrection
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