The prophetic imagination

In this challenging and enlightening treatment, Brueggemann traces the lines from the radical vision of Moses to the solidification of royal power in Solomon to the prophetic critique of that power…

Isaiah, v.2: 40-66

In this volume, Walter Brueggemann focuses on Second Isaiah (Isaiah 40-55), believed to be written by a second exilic poet, and Third Isaiah (Isaiah 56-66), a third group of texts that rearticulate…

Hope within history

This is biblical theology at its best. Within a culture that is presently shaped by values of hopelessness, the author looks at the biblical text and finds the resources for a hope within history, …

Worship in ancient Israel: an essential guide

In an engaging style--characteristic of the author, Walter Brueggemann--this Essential Guide describes the leading motifs of ancient Israel’s worship traditions in the Old Testament. The author g…

David's truth in Israel's imagination and memory, 2E

In this completely revised edition of a true classic, Walter Brueggemann thoughtfully examines four different sets of David texts, both narrative and poetic. Each text reflects a particular social …

The vitality of Old Testament tradition, 2E

This book offers the best current handling of Pentateuchal traditions as they operated in the past and as they help the church now. Hans Walter Wolff sees Israel's faith tradition as a continuous k…

Praying the Psalms

This a book that invites us yo discover in the Psalms a way of getting in touch with, affirming, and expressing our life experiences. In order to pray the Psalms, two things are necessary : (1) the…

Old Testament theology: an introduction

In this first volume in the Library of Biblical Theology series, Walter Brueggemann portrays the key components in Israel's encounter with God as recorded in the Hebrew Bible. Creation, election, T…

Abiding astonishment: Psalms, modernity and the..

To read the historical Psalms is to confront vexed problems of history, historicity and hitoriography. Yet these Psalms are so characteritically treated in Old Testament scholarship as Psalms of hi…

Many voices, one God: being faithful in a pluralistic world

Edition

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ISBN/ISSN

0-664-25757-7

Collation

ix,202p.; 23 cm.

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Call Number

261 BRU m