A key addition to the critically acclaimed three-volume Lectionary Commentary.
This rich volume stimulates and provides resources for preaching from and worshiping with the responsorial Psalms in the Revised Common Lectionary. More than one hundred exegetical essays on these Psalms along with a bevy of creative liturgical suggestions will inspire pastors and worship leaders alike.
Contributors: Nancy R. Bowen, William P. Brown, Walter Brueggemann, Nancy L. deClaissΘ-Walford, Jennifer Green, Karl Jacobson, Rolf Jacobson, Melody...
A key addition to the critically acclaimed three-volume Lectionary Commentary.
Description: Writing with the pastor and student in mind, Walter Brueggemann provides guidance for interpreting Old Testament texts. He offers both advice for the interpreter as well as examples of working with different sorts of passages: from narratives, prophecies, and Psalms. He also demonstrates how to work thematically, drawing together threads from different traditions. His goal is to work through the rhetoric of these passages to reach toward theological interpretation. These investigations indicate Brueggemann's conviction that the process of moving from text to interpretive outcome...
Description: Writing with the pastor and student in mind, Walter Brueggemann provides guidance for interpreting Old Testament texts. He offers both ad...
Drawn from the heart of Brueggemann's "Theology of the Old Testament," this book distills a career's worth of insights into the core message of the Hebrew Bible. The work presents the theologian at his most engaging, offering profound insights tailored especially for the beginning student.
Drawn from the heart of Brueggemann's "Theology of the Old Testament," this book distills a career's worth of insights into the core message of the He...
Description: Prison is a strange land, a land of deep heartache and sadness. Over two million people are serving prison time in America. Millions more are carrying the mark of prison as those who were formerly incarcerated, including large numbers of men and women who have been released on parole. In the midst of such human misery, when ""loosened tongues"" are freed to sing of God's redemptive love, grief is diminished and the prison loses its power. Endorsements: ""Prison in our society is just another word for abandonment and loneliness. But Wes and Marilyn Stevens refused to abandon their...
Description: Prison is a strange land, a land of deep heartache and sadness. Over two million people are serving prison time in America. Millions more...
Description: "To pursue the matter of "revelation in context," I will address an exceedingly difficult text in the Old Testament, Joshua 11. The reason for taking up this text is to deal with the often asked and troublesome question: What shall we do with all the violence and bloody war that is done in the Old Testament in the name of Yahweh? The question reflects a sense that these texts of violence are at least an embarrassment, are morally repulsive, and are theologically problematic in the Bible, not because they are violent, but because this is violence either in the name of or at the...
Description: "To pursue the matter of "revelation in context," I will address an exceedingly difficult text in the Old Testament, Joshua 11. The reaso...
