These studies on the prophetic texts from the Hebrew Bible cover a wide range of topics, challenging the reader to confront the issues of faithfulness, responsibility, and justice in an ever-changing world. Brueggemann explores how these prophetic traditions have the potential to continually resonate in our contemporary communities and individual lives. Rather than "dead words" to kingdoms no longer in existence, the Israelite and Judean prophets have an enduring impact on how God challenges our values, our perspectivesand our very lives. Brueggemann has become well known for providing fresh perspective on ancient texts, always in conversation with great thinkers and people of faith.
These studies on the prophetic texts from the Hebrew Bible cover a wide range of topics, challenging the reader to confront the issues of faithfulness, responsibility, and justice in an ever-changing world. Brueggemann explores how these prophetic traditions have the potential to continually resonate in our contemporary communities and individual lives. Rather than "dead words" to kingdoms no longer in existence, the Israelite and Judean prophets have an enduring impact on how God challenges our values, our perspectivesand our very lives. Brueggemann has become well known for providing fresh perspective on ancient texts, always in conversation with great thinkers and people of faith.
Walter Brueggemann is William Marcellus McPheeters Professor
Emeritus of Old Testament at Columbia Theological Seminary. An
ordained minister in the United Church of Christ, he is regarded as
the premier Old Testament interpreter and biblical theologian of
today. Among his many publications are Prophetic Imagination and
Old Testament Theology.
Patrick D. Miller is Charles T. Haley Professor of Old Testament
Theology at Princeton Theological Seminary and the author of two
Fortress Press volumes: They Cried to the Lord: The Form and
Theology of Biblical Prayer (1994) and Interpreting the Psalms
(1986).
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