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The Book That Breathes New Life: Scriptural Authority and Biblical Theology is unavailable, but you can change that!

Walter Brueggemann, in this collection of essays, engages with the Old Testament in a profound and significant way: discussing its authority, its theology, and its challenges and charm. These essays are a cornerstone in Old Testament theological exegesis, bringing key theological concepts to terms with the Old Testament and the God behind it all.

Mosaic teaching is frontally overturned in the Bible itself, offering what Herbert Donner terms an intentional “abrogation” of Mosaic law in new teaching.9 The old, no doubt circumstance-driven exclusion in the mouth of Moses in Deuteronomy 23 is answered by a circumstance-driven inclusiveness in Isaiah 56. To cite another example, in Deuteronomy 24:1–5, Moses teaches that marriages broken in infidelity cannot be restored, even if both parties want to get back together. But in Jeremiah 3, in a shocking
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