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Walter Brueggemann declares that the necessary character of truly prophetic preaching today is “a contestation between narratives.” If the dominant narrative of our time promotes national self-sufficiency (through militarism) and personal self-sufficiency (through consumerism), it must be opposed by a different narrative. Prophetic preaching takes its stand in a world claimed by a God who is...

Pentateuch and the prophetic corpus that follows. Such a canonical arrangement, it will be recognized, is in tension with what has become the accepted critical judgment that the prophetic corpus in fact is antecedent to the formation of the Pentateuch in the sixth-fifth centuries BCE.18 While acknowledging the force of that critical judgment, it is not unreasonable to proceed here on the basis of the canonical arrangement, recognizing that I am engaged in a post-critical interpretation that is not
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