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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...

I propose that what we are doing in Scripture study, reading, and hearing is that we are redescribing the world, that is, constructing it alternatively.8 The “re” in “redescription” means that the church is restless with the current, dominant description of reality because that description does not square with the facts on the ground. Thus every time the church takes up Scripture, it undertakes a serious challenge to dominant characterizations of our social world. It dares
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