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Hopeful Imagination: Prophetic Voices in Exile is unavailable, but you can change that!

Professor Brueggemann here examines the literature and experience of an era in which Israel’s prophets faced the pastoral responsibility of helping people to enter into exile, to be in exile, and to depart out of exile. He addresses three major prophetic traditions: Jeremiah (the pathos of God), Ezekiel (the holiness of God), and 2 Isaiah (the newness of God). This literature is seen to contain...

“My way is hid from the Lord, and my right is disregarded by my God”? (Isa. 40:27) But Zion said, “The Lord has forgotten me.” (49:14; au. trans.) Is my hand shortened, that it cannot redeem? Or have I no power to deliver? (50:2) On the basis of literary genre, historical allusions, and theological formulations, the literature of Isaiah 40–55 has been judged to be distinct from Isaiah 1–39 (1 Isaiah). Its context is apparently the Babylonian exile of the sixth century B.C.E. The poetry of these chapters
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