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An Unsettling God: The Heart of the Hebrew Bible First Edition
Author(s): Walter Brueggemann (Author)
- Publisher: Fortress Press
- Publication Date: 2 Jun. 2009
- Edition: First Edition
- Language: English
- Print length: 192 pages
- ISBN-10: 9780800663636
- ISBN-13: 0800663632
Book Description
In the pages of the Hebrew Bible, ancient Israel gave witness to its encounter with a profound and uncontrollable reality experienced through relationship. This book, drawn from the heart of foremost Old Testament theologian Walter Brueggemann’s Theology of the Old Testament, distills a career’s worth of insights into the core message of the Hebrew Bible. God is described there, Brueggemann observes, as engaging four “partners”-Israel, the nations, creation, and the human being-in the divine purpose. This volume presents Brueggemann at his most engaging, offering profound insights tailored especially for the beginning student of the Hebrew Bible.
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About the Author
Walter Brueggemann was William Marcellus McPheeters Professor Emeritus of Old Testament at Columbia Theological Seminary until his death in 2025. An ordained minister in the United Church of Christ, he is still regarded as the premier Old Testament interpreter and biblical theologian. Among his many publications are Prophetic Imagination and Old Testament Theology
