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These exciting studies on the first five books of the Bible cover a wide range of topics, challenging the reader to confront the issues of faithfulness, responsibility, and justice in an ever-changing world. Brueggemann sets the issues of praise and lament, grace and duty, truth and power in new frames of reference that call for a response. He demonstrates that the Christian reader of the Bible...

FOR ALL THE VAGARIES OF OLD TESTAMENT SCHOLARSHIP, “COVENANT” looms large in ancient Israel, and in the faith of the church. For all of our study, we still have to determine how covenant is to be understood as a theological commitment, and how it is to be enacted as a mode of shared life. I understand covenant in our own time and place to be a radical alternative to consumer autonomy, which is the governing ideology of our society and which invades the life of
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