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In the pages of the Hebrew Bible, ancient Israel gave witness to its encounter with a profound and uncontrollable reality experienced through relationship. This book, drawn from the heart of foremost Old Testament theologian Walter Brueggemann’s Theology of the Old Testament, distills a career’s worth of insights into the core message of the Hebrew Bible. God is described there, Brueggemann...

each other. The view taken here is that such relatedness is intrinsic to existence and definitional for all agents, including the agency of the God of ancient Israel.1 This suggests that the defining category for faith in the Old Testament is dialogue, whereby all parties—including God—are engaged in a dialogic exchange that is potentially transformative for all parties … including God. This constitutes a conviction that God and God’s partners are engaged in mutual talk. That mutual talk may take
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