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Theology of the Old Testament: Testimony, Dispute, Advocacy is unavailable, but you can change that!

In this foundational textbook, Walter Brueggemann moves the discussion of Old Testament theology beyond the dominant models of Walter Eichrodt in the 1930s and Gerhard von Rad in the 1950s. Brueggemann focuses on the metaphor and imagery of the courtroom trial in order to regard the theological substance of the Old Testament as a series of claims asserted for Yahweh, the God of Israel. This...

the world vis-à-vis the other peoples of the world and its raison d’être and mission in the world.92 Von Rad’s understanding of Old Testament theology is that it is an ongoing “traditioning” process in which each subsequent generation in Israel retells the narrative recital, but retells it with the incorporation of new materials and with a recasting, so that the ancient recital may be kept pertinent to new circumstance and new crisis.93 The completed form of the tradition is then the accumulation
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