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

The Land: Place as Gift, Promise, and Challenge in Biblical Faith is unavailable, but you can change that!

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...

2. During the period when Israel had left the slavery of Egypt and was not yet in the land of promise (forty years’ worth!) it remembered itself as wanderer. In wilderness traditions (Exodus 16–18; Num 10:10ff.), the buoyant faith of the fathers is much less in evidence. Now the stress is upon being without resources and at the disposal of the elements, drought and hunger, or the Amalekites. While the narrative affirms that Yahweh leads it, there is considerable evidence (forty years’ worth!) that

Page 7

Buy this book at Logos.com