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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; • ...

who is the God who intervenes powerfully on behalf of the poor and the marginal in the face of oppressive power. Such a claim is at the center and heart of the biblical assertion. This God is not known in any speculative or theoretical way but always through acts of social intervention and inversion that create possibilities of human life in contexts where the human spirit has been crushed (see Isa. 57:15) and human possibility choked off. Three examples of this strange solidarity that Yahweh shows
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