Description: Writing with the pastor and student in mind, Walter
Brueggemann provides guidance for interpreting Old Testament texts.
He offers both advice for the interpreter as well as examples of
working with different sorts of passages: from narratives,
prophecies, and Psalms. He also demonstrates how to work
thematically, drawing together threads from different traditions.
His goal is to work through the rhetoric of these passages to reach
toward theological interpretation. These investigations indicate
Brueggemann's conviction that the process of moving from text to
interpretive outcome is an artistic enterprise that can be learned
and practiced. Endorsements: ""One of the best and most esteemed
interpreters of Scripture shows here how he does it. A 'how-to'
book with wonderful examples, it is vintage Brueggemann: incisive,
penetrating, provocative, and always seeking to uncover the cutting
edge of the text. He cares as much about pastoral responsibility as
interpretive method. In fact, he doesn't think you can separate
them-one of the many gifts of this compelling and practical book.""
-Patrick D. Miller, author of The Religion of Ancient Israel ""We
have become accustomed to the insightful reflections and the
critical theological thinking of many contemporary biblical
scholars. However, seldom has an author taken us step-by-step
through the actual progression of that thought. This is precisely
what Walter Brueggemann does in this book. Insisting that all
believers, not merely scholars, should be able to critically read
the Bible, he offers a modified, though still critical interpretive
approach, that shows us how we might do it ourselves."" -Dianne
Bergant, CSA author of Scripture: History and Interpretation ""This
is the book that those of us who have studied with Walter
Brueggemann have been waiting for. Here is the teacher we have
known in class: telling us how he has come to read scripture as he
does and showing us how he does it. I have been using this method
of interpreting scripture with my congregation for the past decade.
Together we have found that Brueggemann's three-step interpretive
strategy opens us up to the biblical texts so that they speak to us
in powerful new ways. What a wonderful gift this book is to the
church."" -Edwin Searcy, University Hill Congregation, Vancouver,
BC About the Contributor(s): Walter Brueggemann is William
Marcellus McPheeters Professor of Old Testament Emeritus at
Columbia Theological Seminary, Decatur, Georgia. He is the author
of numerous works, including Praying the Psalms (2nd ed., Cascade
Books, 2007), Theology of the Old Testament, and Prophetic
Imagination.
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