Endlessly cunning, elusive, and playful–the Bible consistently unsettles even as it assures. Walter Brueggemann reveals exactly how Scripture exposes the inadequacy of the assumptions and habits that shape our lives. He finds inside Israel’s ancient poetry, prophecy, narrative, and legal covenants new words that create new peoples. In so doing this book provokes a theology of transformation–one that compels new social, economic, and political practices. Brueggemann’s reading rev...
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Introduction by Davis Hankins
Part 1: Poetic Cadences that Create Hope
1. Conflicted Human Agency
2. Conflicted Divine Agency
3. Misbegotten Hope
4. Poems vs. M...
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Walter Brueggemann is William Marcellus Mc Pheeters Professor of Old Testament Emeritus at Columbia Theological Seminary.Davis Hankins is Lecturer in the Department...