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Walter Brueggemann’s unique gift of joining historical-exegetical insights to penetrating observations about the traumas and joys of contemporary life—both personal and social—is here forcefully displayed. Everyone who is familiar with his work knows the power of his speech about “doxological, polemical, political, subversive, evangelical faith” and about the ways such faith is enacted in the...

1. First, Westermann has shown that these psalms move from plea to praise.3 In that move the situation and/or attitude of the speaker is transformed, and God is mobilized for the sake of the speaker. The intervention of God in some way permits the move from plea to praise.4 Second, Westermann has shown that the lament is resolved by and corresponds to the song of thanksgiving.5 Indeed, the song of thanksgiving is in fact the lament restated after the crisis has been dealt with. Westermann inclines
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