Research Catalog

Title

God in the fray : A tribute to Walter Brueggemann / edited by Tod Linafelt and Timothy K. Beal.

Publication

Minneapolis : Fortress Press, [1998], ©1998.

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Additional Authors

• Brueggemann, Walter.
• Linafelt, Tod, 1965-

Description

xv, 350 pages : portrait; 23 cm

Subjects

• Bible > Old Testament > Theology
• Brueggemann, Walter
• God > Biblical teaching

Bibliography (note)

• "Walter Brueggemann: a selected bibliography, 1961-1998": p. 321-340.
• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Introduction: In the Fray and at Risk / Timothy K. Beal and Tod Linafelt -- Pt. 1. Engaging Brueggemann's Theology. 1. Rhetorical, Historical, and Ontological Counterpoints in Doing Old Testament Theology / Norman K. Gottwald. 2. Some Reflections on Brueggemann's God / Terence E. Fretheim. 3. Confronting the Character of God: Text and Praxis / David R. Blumenthal -- Pt. 2. God in the Torah. 4. Was Everything That God Created Really Good? A Question in the First Verse of the Bible / James Barr. 5. Genocide's Lament: Moses, Pharaoh's Daughter, and the Former Yugoslavia / Nancy C. Lee. 6. The Sojourner Has Come to Play the Judge: Theodicy on Trial / James L. Crenshaw. 7. God's Commandment / Dale Patrick. 8. "God Is Not a Human That He Should Repent" (Numbers 23:19 and 1 Samuel 15:29) / R. W. L. Moberly -- Pt. 3. God in the Prophets. 9. Colonialism and the Vagaries of Scripture: Te Kooti in Canaan (A Story of Bible and Dispossession in Aotearoa/New Zealand) / David M. Gunn.
• 10. "Who Is Blind But My Servant?" (Isaiah 42:19): How Then Shall We Read Isaiah? / Ronald E. Clements. 11. The Metaphor of the Rock in Biblical Theology / Samuel Terrien. 12. The Tears of God and Divine Character in Jeremiah 2-9 / Kathleen M. O'Connor. 13. Alas for the Day! The "Day of the Lord" in the Book of the Twelve / Rolf Rendtorff. 14. Divine Incongruities in the Book of Jonah / Phyllis Trible -- Pt. 4. God in the Writings. 15. Prayer and Divine Action / Patrick D. Miller. 16. The Complaint Against God / Claus Westermann and Armin Siedlecki. 17. Quarter Days Gone: Job 24 and the Absence of God / David J. A. Clines. 18. "What Are Human Beings, That You Make So Much of Them?" Divine Disclosure from the Whirlwind: "Look at Behemoth" / Samuel E. Balentine. 19. The Impossibility of Mourning: Lamentations after the Holocaust / Tod Linafelt. 20. C(ha)osmopolis: Qohelet's Last Words / Timothy K. Beal -- Pt. 5. Continuing the Dialogue.
• 21. Theology of the Old Testament: A Prompt Retrospect / Walter Brueggemann. 22. Walter Brueggemann: A Selected Bibliography, 1961-98 / Clayton H. Hulet.

ISBN

0800630904 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

98043489

OCLC

ocm40218720

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries