Reconstructing Old Testament Theology: After the Collapse of History (Overtures to Biblical Theology) - Softcover

Brueggemann, Walter

Softcover

ISBN 10: 080063716X ISBN 13: 9780800637163

Publisher: Fortress Press, 2005

Synopsis

In this informative and keen look at contemporary trends in Old Testament theology, Perdue builds on his earlier volume The Collapse of History (1994). He investigates how a variety of perspectives and methodologies have impacted how the Old Testament is read in the twenty-first century including: literary criticism; rhetorical criticism, feminist, womanist, and mujerista theologies, liberation theology; Jewish theology; postmodernism; and postcolonialism. Perdue provides a sensitive reading of the aims of these approaches as well as providing critique and setting them in their various cultural contexts. In his conclusion, the author provides a look at the future and how these various voices and approaches will continue to impact how we carry out Old Testament theology.

About this title

About the Author:

Leo G. Perdue is Professor of Hebrew Bible at Brite Divinity School, Fort Worth, Texas. Among his works are The Blackwell Companion to the Hebrew Bible (editor, 2001), Proverbs (2000), and Wisdom and Creation (1994).

About this edition

• Publisher: Fortress Press
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 080063716X
• ISBN 13: 9780800637163
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 416
• Editor: Perdue Leo G.