Table of Contents

Editor's Foreword

Preface

Preaching as Sub-Version

Life-or-Death, DePrivileged Communication

Together in the Spirit-Beyond Seductive Quarrels

Reading as Wounded and as Haunted

Four Indispensable Conversations among Exiles

The Liturgy of Abundance, the Myth of Scarcity

Texts That Linter, Not Yet Overcome

Crisis-Evoked, Crisis-Resolving Speech

The Role of Old Testament Theology

in Old Testament InterpretationAbbreviations

Notes

Credits

Author Index

Scripture Index

About the Author

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).