God in the Fray
Pages
368
Publisher
Fortress Press
Published
11/1/1998
ISBN-13
9780800630904
This volume engages the work of Walter Brueggemann by centering on the character of God in the text of the Old Testament as a site of theological tension and even ambivalence. Walter Brueggemann's monumental theology of the Old Testament addresses this fact with great theological insight and rigor, and these internationally renowned biblical scholars engage and extend his insights into the "unsettled Character . . . at the center of the text."
Inner Books
This physical volume has several internal sections, each of which has been reviewed independently
- Theology of the Old Testament : a prompt retrospect by Walter Brueggemann
Reviews
Review of Biblical Literature (RBL) (Daniel Smith-Christopher)
December 8, 1999
December 8, 1999
Minneapolis: Augsburg Fortress Press, 1998. Pp. xv +350, Paperback, No Price Available, ISBN 0800630904. Daniel Smith-Christopher Loyola Marymount University Los Angeles, CA 90045 After a brief introduction by the editors, this Festschrift is divided by subject matter into the following essays: Part One, entitled "Engaging Brueggemann's Theology" features "Rhetorical, Historical, and Ontological Counterpoints in Doing Old Testament Theology", by Norman Gottwald (pp. 11-23); "Some Reflections on Brueggemann's God", by Terence E. Fretheim (pp. 24-37); and "Confronting the Character of God: Text and Praxis" by David R. Blumenthal (Pp. 38-54). Part Two, entitled "God in the Torah" features: "Was Everything That God Created Really Good? A Question in the First Verse of the Bible" by James Barr (pp. 55-65); "Genocide's Lament: Moses, Pharaoh's Daughter, and the Former Yugoslavia" by Nancy C. Lee (pp. 66-82); "The Sojourner Has Come to play the Judge: Theodicy on Trial" by James Crenshaw (pp. 83-92); "God's Commandment" by Dale Patrick (pp. 93-111); "'God is Not a Human That He Should Repent'" (Numbers 23:19 and 1 Samuel 15:29) by R.W. L. Moberly (pp. 112-123). Part Three, entitled "God in the Prophets" features "Colonialism and the Vagaries of Scripture: Te Kooti in Canaan (A Story of Bible and Dispossession in Aotearoa/New Zealand)" by David M. Gunn (pp. 127-142); "'Who Is Blind But My Servant?' (Isaiah 42:19): How Then Shall we Read Isaiah?" by Ronald E. Clements (pp. 143-157); "The Metaphor of the Rock in Biblical Theology" by Samuel Terrien (pp. 157-171); "The Tears of God and Divine Character in Jeremiah 2-9" by Kathleen M. O`Conner (pp. 172-185); "Alas for the Day! The 'Day of the Lord' in the Book of the Twelve" by Rolf Rendtorff (pp. 186-197).
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