Walter Brueggemann is William Marcellus McPheeters Professor of Old Testament Emeritus at Columbia Theological Seminary and the author of numerous books including, from Fortress Press, The Prophetic Imagination; Theology of the Old Testament; and The Message of the Psalms. Brueggemann lives in Traverse City, Michigan. 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).
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Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction A Shape for Old Testament Theology, I: Structure Legitimation A Shape for Old Testament Theology, II: Embrace of Pain The Rhetoric of Hurt and Hope: Ethics Odd and Crucial Bodied Faith and the Body Politic A Convergence in Recent Old Testament Theologies Futures in Old Testament Theology Old Testament Theology as a Particular Conversation: Adjudication of Israel's Sociotheological Alternatives The Crisis and Promise of Presence in Israel A Shattered Transcendence? Exile and Restoration Genesis 50:15-21-A Theological Exploration 1 Samuel 1-A Sense of a Beginning 2 Samuel 21-24-An Appendix of Deconstruction? Unity and Dynamic in the Isaiah Tradition The Epistemological Crisis of Israel's Two Histories (Jeremiah 9:22-23) The "Uncared For" Now Cared For (Jeremiah 30:12-17): A Methodological Consideration Credits Scripture Index