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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...

out, our interpretation is a lie. The interpretive language that grows from the bread broken and the wine poured out is not the language of certain scholasticism, partisan moralism, or strident revolution. We will not responsibly claim the authority of Scripture unless we recover its language that is the language of trust and amazement, gratitude and obedience. Then the words may match the sacrament! I move from this essay to particular texts, a move that is not easy or obvious. I make that move
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