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An Introduction to the Old Testament: The Canon and Christian Imagination ペーパーバック – 2003/11/1
英語版
Walter Brueggemann
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In this book, Walter Brueggemann, America's premier biblical theologian, introduces the reader to the broad theological scope and chronological sweep of the Old Testament. Covering each book of the Old Testament - in the order in which it appears in the Hebrew Bible - the Introduction explains without unnecessary jargon the most important issues and methods in contemporary interpretation of the Old Testament - literary, historical, and theological.
- 本の長さ352ページ
- 言語英語
- 出版社Westminster John Knox Pr
- 発売日2003/11/1
- 寸法15.24 x 3.18 x 22.23 cm
- ISBN-100664224121
- ISBN-13978-0664224127
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著者について
Walter Brueggemann is William Marcellus McPheeters Professor Emeritus of Old Testament at Columbia Theological Seminary.
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- 出版社 : Westminster John Knox Pr (2003/11/1)
- 発売日 : 2003/11/1
- 言語 : 英語
- ペーパーバック : 352ページ
- ISBN-10 : 0664224121
- ISBN-13 : 978-0664224127
- 寸法 : 15.24 x 3.18 x 22.23 cm
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Joel Hills Sr.
5つ星のうち5.0
The Must Have Book!
2013年11月26日にアメリカ合衆国でレビュー済みAmazonで購入
Walter Brueggemann's book is insightful and thought provoking. He gives you a deeper understanding of the Old Testament. I am currently using his book for my course in Old Testament, and it has helped me immensely. I recommend this book to anyone who is taking Old Testament studies.
malcolm hendry
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great first time
2013年7月28日に英国でレビュー済みAmazonで購入
if your looking for a helpful simply way into the OT this book is just for you, easy to follow and well worth the money
Sandra Barr
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Great conversation about the Old Testament!
2013年6月22日にアメリカ合衆国でレビュー済みAmazonで購入
Well written and logically organized. It reads like a conversation but challenges your thought. I am not a seminarian or a theologian but I enjoyed the text.
limani
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As new
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book arrived in reasonable time and was as new and is just what I wanted and I am reading it every morning
Gitfiddler Ed
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It could have been better
2010年3月10日にアメリカ合衆国でレビュー済みAmazonで購入
There's a lot of good information in this book, especially if you are relatively new to Hebrew Bible ("Old Testament") studies. But there also lies one of its main flaws. In the Preface Dr. Brueggemann says boldly that, "the present book is my effort. . .to mediate and make available fresh learnings that will be of peculiar force for pastors and Christian congregations" (p. xi). However, the majority of the book is so obtuse that few pastors and/or members of congregations will be able to understand it. It is highly analytical, with technical terms, and theological jargon that complicate what he is trying to say. Once you work through all of that there is much value in what he has to say but, for the most part, it is lost to anyone who is not technically trained in biblical studies.
Brueggemann calls the transmission of the Hebrew Biblical narrative "imaginative remembering," which is really a catchy way of saying that the story drives the facts, rather than the other way around. But then he never tells the story. He merely dissects and analyzes the scholarship of the last 150 years and the "story" becomes lost in a maze biblical scholarship. Scholar NT Wright, Anglican Bishop of Durham, England, in his brilliant The New Testament and the People of God, carefully lays out the importance of the story in both the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament. Many other scholars have followed suit on relating the importance of "story" (sometimes simply referred to as "the narrative) which embodies the meaning of the message.
Current scholarship is fairly unanimous in saying that the theme of the Hebrew Bible is the story of "the faithfulness of God and the unfaithfulness of the People of God." The one example of faithfulness to God is the "ancestor" Abraham. Throughout the Hebrew Bible when YHWH identifies himself to the People of God he does so in terms similar to this: "I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, Isaac & Jacob" (Ex 2:24, 3:6, 3:15, etc., I Chr 16:16, Ps 47:9, etc.) The faithfulness of Abraham is reiterated in Paul's letters to the Romans and Galatians and especially in the anonymous homily to the Hebrews (possibly written by the great Alexandrian Christian and rhetorician, Apollos (Acts 18:24-28). In Galatians and Hebrews Jesus' faithfulness to God is compared with the faithfulness of Abraham.
What does Brueggemann do with this? Nothing. From pages 43-51 the section called "The Ancestors (Genesis 12 - 50)", although it embodies the story of Abraham, never focuses on his faithfulness, nor on its importance in either the Hebrew Bible or the New Testament. Yet following the story of Abraham's faithfulness the rest of the Hebrew Bible turns to the unfaithfulness of the People of God. That fact is railed against by the prophets, especially, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Hosea, and Amos.
While the author mentions the documentary hypothesis of the Torah by German scholars in the late nineteenth century (an hypothesis largely dismissed by modern scholars as being basically irrelevant to the story itself), he never addresses the question as to why there are so many names for God in the biblical text: El (the chief god of the Canaanites), El Shaddai (usually translated God Almighty, but some believe it could mean "God of Violence"), El Elyan (Most High God), Elohim (the plural "gods" - a literal translation of Gen 1:1 would be "The gods created heaven and earth"), and finally YHWH who identifies himself to Moses as the "God of Abraham" (Ex. 6:3). Brueggemann fails to consider that the various names for God, which appear regularly throughout the narrative of Israel's history, may, indeed, point to the question of to which god they they were to remain faithful. All the while YHWH proclaims that He is the God of Abraham. It was not until the People of God returned from exile in Babylon in the sixth century B.C. that they seemed to know which God was theirs.
With all of this said, Brueggemann's book is still of immense value, however, it missed the story it could have told and which could have indeed sparked the "Christian Imagination."
Brueggemann calls the transmission of the Hebrew Biblical narrative "imaginative remembering," which is really a catchy way of saying that the story drives the facts, rather than the other way around. But then he never tells the story. He merely dissects and analyzes the scholarship of the last 150 years and the "story" becomes lost in a maze biblical scholarship. Scholar NT Wright, Anglican Bishop of Durham, England, in his brilliant The New Testament and the People of God, carefully lays out the importance of the story in both the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament. Many other scholars have followed suit on relating the importance of "story" (sometimes simply referred to as "the narrative) which embodies the meaning of the message.
Current scholarship is fairly unanimous in saying that the theme of the Hebrew Bible is the story of "the faithfulness of God and the unfaithfulness of the People of God." The one example of faithfulness to God is the "ancestor" Abraham. Throughout the Hebrew Bible when YHWH identifies himself to the People of God he does so in terms similar to this: "I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, Isaac & Jacob" (Ex 2:24, 3:6, 3:15, etc., I Chr 16:16, Ps 47:9, etc.) The faithfulness of Abraham is reiterated in Paul's letters to the Romans and Galatians and especially in the anonymous homily to the Hebrews (possibly written by the great Alexandrian Christian and rhetorician, Apollos (Acts 18:24-28). In Galatians and Hebrews Jesus' faithfulness to God is compared with the faithfulness of Abraham.
What does Brueggemann do with this? Nothing. From pages 43-51 the section called "The Ancestors (Genesis 12 - 50)", although it embodies the story of Abraham, never focuses on his faithfulness, nor on its importance in either the Hebrew Bible or the New Testament. Yet following the story of Abraham's faithfulness the rest of the Hebrew Bible turns to the unfaithfulness of the People of God. That fact is railed against by the prophets, especially, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Hosea, and Amos.
While the author mentions the documentary hypothesis of the Torah by German scholars in the late nineteenth century (an hypothesis largely dismissed by modern scholars as being basically irrelevant to the story itself), he never addresses the question as to why there are so many names for God in the biblical text: El (the chief god of the Canaanites), El Shaddai (usually translated God Almighty, but some believe it could mean "God of Violence"), El Elyan (Most High God), Elohim (the plural "gods" - a literal translation of Gen 1:1 would be "The gods created heaven and earth"), and finally YHWH who identifies himself to Moses as the "God of Abraham" (Ex. 6:3). Brueggemann fails to consider that the various names for God, which appear regularly throughout the narrative of Israel's history, may, indeed, point to the question of to which god they they were to remain faithful. All the while YHWH proclaims that He is the God of Abraham. It was not until the People of God returned from exile in Babylon in the sixth century B.C. that they seemed to know which God was theirs.
With all of this said, Brueggemann's book is still of immense value, however, it missed the story it could have told and which could have indeed sparked the "Christian Imagination."