Ice Axes for Frozen Seas : A Biblical Theology of Provocation /

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Endlessly cunning, elusive, and playful -- the Bible consistently unsettles even as it assures. Walter Brueggemann reveals exactly how Scripture exposes the inadequacy of the assumptions and habits that shape our lives. He finds inside Israel's ancient poetry, prophecy, narrative, and legal cov...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Brueggemann, Walter (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Waco, Texas : Baylor University Press, [2014]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Bible > Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Bible. > Old Testament.
Bible. > Old Testament > Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Theology.
theology.
Theologie.
Theology
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • PART I Poetic Cadences that Create Hope
  • Conflicted Human Agency
  • Conflicted Divine Agency
  • Misbegotten Hope
  • Poems vs. Memos
  • Biblical Language
  • PART II Narrative Complexities that Challenge
  • Food Fight
  • Departure without Arrival
  • Nightmare of Amnesia
  • Antidote to Amnesia
  • Double Agency
  • PART III Legal Covenants that Coalesce
  • From Narrative to Policy
  • God Who Gives Rest
  • Covenantal Risks and Rewards
  • PART IV Imaginative Provocations that Compel
  • Testimony
  • Obedience
  • Slow Wisdom
  • Bail Out
  • Jubilee.

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