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A Pathway of Interpretation: The Old Testament for Pastors and Students is unavailable, but you can change that!

Writing with the pastor and student in mind, Walter Brueggemann provides guidance for interpreting Old Testament texts. He offers advice for the interpreter as well as examples of working with different sorts of passages—including narratives, prophecies, and Psalms. He also demonstrates how to work thematically, drawing together threads from different traditions. He works through the rhetoric of...

freedom of God, the stunning energy of God’s miraculous presence in the world, and revolutionary ethic that is an embarrassment to a managed world. In the end this read of the Bible is congenial to “the cultured despisers of religion,” but without the evangelical impetus to subvert the modern world of Enlightenment rationality. This second tyranny is much more prevalent in mainline churches because seminary instruction has been completely committed to historical-critical interpretation. The outcome
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