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Theology of the Old Testament: Testimony, Dispute, Advocacy

Walter Brueggemann · 1997

A comprehensive theological interpretation of the Old Testament organized around the concepts of testimony, counter-testimony, and unsolicited testimony, arguing for a multi-voiced, dialogical approach to biblical faith that emphasizes rhetoric and partnership with God over historical certainty.

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What this book knows

Israel's speech about Yahweh is irreducibly testimonial—contested, passionate, and shaped by a God who resists every domestication.

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faith-and-doubt

The statement of incomparability is the most poignant spine and leitmotif of all of Israel's testimony concerning Yahweh.
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Job, in his rage, entertains the option that Yahweh is not. Here both parties have become suspicious of the other.
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Israel understood that the reference points of life with Yahweh have to do with interventions that made possible what was otherwise not possible.
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The God of the whirlwind refuses the domestication to which Israel was intensely tempted.
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There is something of Yahweh beyond moral calculus, which will not submit. Nonetheless the moral reliability of the world must be championed.
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mortality

The fate of humans and the fate of animals is the same; as one dies, so dies the other. All go to one place.
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