Theology of the Old Testament: Testimony, Dispute, Advocacy
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Walter Brueggemann

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In this powerful book, Walter Brueggemann moves the discussion of Old Testament theology beyond the dominant models of previous generations.

Brueggemann focuses on the metaphor and imagery of the courtroom trial in order to regard the theological substance of the Old Testament as a series of claims asserted for Yahweh, the God of Israel. This provides a context that attends to pluralism in every dimension of the interpretive process and suggests links to the plurality of voices of our time.

The concern for process and interaction explains the three terms of the subtitle:

• Testimony: the character of theological claim in the Old Testament must make its way amid counterassertions
• Dispute: There are competing offers of truth, as in any critical legal case.
• Advocac:: The role of testimony is to advocate a rendering of truth that is strongly in conflict with other versions of reality.

Brueggemann focuses on the processes of theological assertion, on utterance rather than historical questions, and seeks to see Jewish and Christian theological interpretation as parallel operations. He takes seriously the "down side" testimony to God as well as Israel's positive claims for God.

Walter Brueggemann is William Marcellus McPheeters Professor of Old Testament at Columbia Theological Seminary, Decatur, Georgia. He is the author of more than thirty books and commentaries.

Preface
Abbreviations

1. Retrospect 1: From the Beginning to the End of a Generative Period

2. Retropsect 2: The Contemporary Situation

PART I: ISRAEL'S CORE TESTIMONY

3. Israel's Practice of Testimony

4. Testimony in Verbal Sentences

5. Adjectives: Yahweh with Characteristic Markings

6. Nouns: Yahweh as Constant

7. Yahweh Fully Uttered

PART II: ISRAEL'S COUNTERTESTIMONY

8. Cross-Examining Israel's Core Testimony

9. The Hiddenness of Yahweh

10. Ambiguity and the Character of Yahweh

11. Yahweh and Negativity

12. Maintaining the Tension

PART III: ISRAEL'S UNSOLICITED TESTIMONY

13. Israel's Unsolicited Testimony

14. Israel as Yahweh's Partner

15. The Human Person as Yahweh's Partner

16. The Nations as Yahweh's Partner

17. Creation as Yahweh's Partner

18. The Drama of Partnership with Yahweh

PART IV: ISRAEL'S EMBODIED TESTIMONY

19. Mediating the Presence of Yahweh

20. The Torah as Mediator

21. The King as Mediator

22. The Prophet as Mediator

23. The Cult as Mediator

24. The Sage as Mediator

25. Modes of Mediation and Life with Yahweh

PARTV: PROSPECTS FOR THEOLOGICAL INTERPRETATION

26. Interpretation in a Pluralistic Context

27. The Constitutive Power of Israel's Testimony

28. Some Pervasive Issues

29. Moving Toward True Speech

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