Social Criticism and Social Vision in Ancient Israel

Contents
1. Social Criticism and Social Vision in the Deuteronomic Formula of the Judges
2. A Poem of Summons (Isa 55:1-3), a Narrative of Resistance (Dan 1:1-21)
3. Psalms 9-10: A Counter to Conventional Social Reality
4. Prophetic Imagination toward Social Flourishing
5. A Royal Miracle and Its Nachleben
6. The Living Afterlife of a Dead Prophet: Words That Keep Speaking
7. The Tearing of the Curtain: Matthew 27:51
8. Five Strong Rereadings of the Book of Isaiah

About the author

Walter Brueggemann is William Marcellus McPheeters Professor of Old Testament Emeritus at Columbia Theological Seminary, Decatur, Georgia. He has published widely on the Old Testament as well as contemporary hermeneutical reflections, including, from Cascade Books: David and His Theologian (2011), A Pathway of Interpretation (2008), Embracing the Transformation (2014), The Practice of Homefulness (2014), Truth-Telling as Subversive Obedience (2011), Virus as a Summons to Faith (2020), A Wilderness Zone (2021), and Resisting Denial, Refusing Despair (2022).

Product details

• Authors: Walter Brueggemann, Walter/ Hanson Brueggemann
• Assisted by: K C Hanson (Editor), K. C. Hanson (Editor)
• Publisher: Wipf & stock publishers
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 02.11.2016
• EAN: 9781498206433
• ISBN: 978-1-4982-0643-3
• No. of pages: 129
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 235 mm x 19 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works