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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; • ...

Perhaps that is too familiar to us, so familiar we miss how subversive it is. To test its subversive impact, one need only teach it and preach it. For it represents a break with conventional theology. It calls into question the self-sufficiency of God, the entire catechetical tradition of a God without solidarity with earthly partners whom this God values and makes valuable. The conventional God of the catechisms makes all the caring moves after everything is settled and there
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