The Land: Place as Gift, Promise, and Challenge in Biblical Faith (Biblia.com)

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The land was one of the most vibrant symbols for the people of ancient Israel. In the land—gift, promise, and challenge—was found the physical source of Israel’s fertility and life, and a place for the gathering of the hopes of the covenant people. In this careful treatment, Walter Brueggemann follows the development of his theme through the major blocks of Israel’s traditions. The book provides...

always includes excess meanings both rooted in and moving beyond literalism. Land is a central, if not the central theme of biblical faith. Biblical faith is a pursuit of historical belonging that includes a sense of destiny derived from such belonging. In what follows I suggest that land might be a way of organizing biblical theology. The dominant categories of biblical theology have been either existentialist or formulations of “the mighty deeds of God in history.”6

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