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A Social Reading of the Old Testament: Prophetic Approaches to Israel’s Communal Life is unavailable, but you can change that!

In this collection of essays, Walter Brueggemann raises a variety of intriguing, contemporary questions on the relation of society and text in the Old Testament, such as: • the hidden agendas that underlie the making and reading of Scripture; • the conflictual tension in ancient Israel; • the cry to God of the oppressed and God’s response; • the political dimension of mercy; • ...

is inherently socially conservative. There is not within the return to myth the nerve or energy to take the actions that would transform historical circumstance. Indeed, it was the rejection of those very myths that permitted the Israelite novum in history and religion.62 Conversely, such a “theology of grace” contains within it the acceptance of things as they are, and there is here no call to repentance in terms of historical engagement. Thus, from one perspective, Job reacts against the passionate
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