A Social Reading of the Old Testament: Prophetic Approaches to Israel’s Communal Life

In this book Walter Brueggemann raises a variety of contemporary and intriguing questions on the relation of society and text in the Old Testament, among themthe hidden agendas that underlie the making and reading of Scripture

the conflictual tension in ancient Israel

the cry to God of the oppressed and God’s response

the political dimension of mercy

theodicy, violence, horses, and chariotsBrueggemann opens to a variety of readers a compelling picture of subversive paradigm and social possibility in the Hebrew Bible.