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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; • ...

in relational, political categories and not in the conventional theological categories of self-sufficiency, such as omnipotence, omnipresence, and omniscience, or in private categories of psychological-spiritual inclination. Neither set of such categories expresses the radical historical, relational character of Yahweh. (3) It means that this God is characteristically in profound tension with the other gods, each of which tends to be a legitimator of imperial power of one kind or another. In challenging
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