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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...

life depends. This God, as Israel witnesses, is indeed “wholly other,” but not in the one-dimensional way as some belated Barthians claim. The otherness of the God for Israel is like the otherness of mother, who valorizes in self-giving, self-forgetting ways, and who in holiness has God’s own life to live, completely without regard for Israel.9 This God must be praised, and Israel’s covenanting activity, already undertaken by Miriam and her sisters in Exod. 15:20–21, is to learn in lyrical, doxological,
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