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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; • ...

and practiced. And where the spirit is quenched, there the mission is domesticated. The three belong closely together: a God who makes covenant by making a move toward the partner (Hos. 2:14, 18–20); a community that practices covenant by the new forms of torah, knowledge, and forgiveness (Jer. 31:31–34); and a world yet to be transformed to covenanting, by the dismantling of imperial reality (Isa. 42:6–7; 49:6). That is how the battle is joined. These alternatives given us in the
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