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God, What's with All the Questions?
If you’ve been following my blog recently, you will know that I have just finished reading Brueggemann’s An Unsettling God: The Heart of the Hebrew Bible. In the book, one of his primary points is the Old Testament picture of God is as partner in dialogue in contrast to the picture of God within classical…
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Brueggemann on Metanarrative
This will be the last installment of me posting excerpts from An Unsettling God: The Heart of the Hebrew Bible. Overall it was a good read (as well as a quick one), though I enjoyed the first part of the book more than the latter. I think his analysis of YHWH as a partner in…
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Brueggemann Quote on the Wisdom Traditions
I am still reading through Brueggeman’s An Unsettling God: The Heart of the Hebrew Bible. I will probably finish tomorrow, but I’ve been posting some quotes from the book I have thought noteworthy along the way (see HERE and HERE). I may post a more substantial review if I have the time (doubtful with thesis…
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Brueggemann on the Canonizing Process
Have continued reading Brueggeman’s An Unsettling God: The Heart of the Hebrew Bible this afternoon. Since I didn’t get a great deal of Brueggemann in seminary I didn’t realize how quotable he is. Some of this may be old hat to some of my readers, but I liked this little gem from chapter 2 (sorry,…
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Brueggemann on the Defining Category for Faith in the Old Testament
I started reading Walter Brueggemann’s An Unsettling God: The Heart of the Hebrew Bible this afternoon. And, I thought this line from the Preface worthy of quotation: This suggests that the defining category for faith in the Old Testament is dialogue, whereby all parties-including God- are engaged in a dialogic exchange that is potentially transformative…