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A social reading of the Old Testament : prophetic approaches to Israel's communal life
- Title
- A social reading of the Old Testament : prophetic approaches to Israel's communal life / Walter Brueggemann ; edited by Patrick D. Miller.
- Author
- Brueggemann, Walter.
- Publication
- Minneapolis : Fortress Press, [1994], ©1994.
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- Additional Authors
- Miller, Patrick D.
- Description
- viii, 328 pages; 22 cm
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction / Patrick D. Miller -- 1. Trajectories in Old Testament Literature and the Sociology of Ancient Israel -- 2. Covenant as a Subversive Paradigm -- 3. Covenant and Social Possibility -- 4. Social Criticism and Social Vision in the Deuteronomic Formula of the Judges -- 5. "Vine and Fig Tree": A Case Study in Imagination and Criticism -- 6. At the Mercy of Babylon: A Subversive Rereading of the Empire -- 7. A Poem of Summons (Isaiah 55:1-3) and a Narrative of Resistance (Daniel 1) -- 8. Israel's Social Criticism and Yahweh's Sexuality -- 9. Theodicy in a Social Dimension -- 10. The Social Nature of the Biblical Text for Preaching -- 11. The Prophet as a Destabilizing Presence -- 12. The Social Significance of Solomon as a Patron of Wisdom -- 13. Rethinking Church Models through Scripture -- 14. Reflections on Biblical Understandings of Property -- 15. Revelation and Violence: A Study in Contextualization.
- ISBN
- 0800627342 (alk. paper) :
- LCCN
- 93034115
- OCLC
- 28799432
- ocm28799432
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries