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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...

act against an established given. As the text, in any particular utterance, bids for Israel’s allegiance, it must do so most often against established givens of some alien overlord, or against established power in its own community.28 (Here I intentionally overstate, for in some Old Testament texts it is the text itself that is the establishment utterance, and therefore the text is less playful.) In any case, a dramatic mode of theology requires the belated critic to stay inside the drama—inside
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