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1517 Media Reconstructing OT Theology by Walter Brueggemann Edited by Leo G. Perdue
In this informative and keen look at contemporary trends in Old Testament theology Perdue builds on his earlier volume The Collapse of History 1994. He investigates how a variety of perspectives and methodologies have impacted how the Old Testament is read in the twenty-first century including: literary criticism; rhetorical criticism feminist womanist and mujerista theologies liberation theology; Jewish theology; postmodernism; and postcolonialism. Perdue provides a sensitive reading of the aims of these approaches as well as providing critique and setting them in their various cultural contexts. In his conclusion the author provides a look at the future and how these various voices and approaches will continue to impact how we carry out Old Testament theology.show more