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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...

Conservative interpretive voices currently focus on sexuality and advocate for social equilibrium in order to maintain social relationships, as they have been in the past; such voices tend to be silent on matters of money and the economy. Conversely, liberal interpretive voices currently focus on money and advocate social transformation as concerns health and education in order to create a new set of social relationships; such voices tend to disregard much of the text concerning sexuality. There
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