An Unsettling God : The Heart of the Hebrew Bible

[JN Anderson]

Click here (http://religousbooksreview.blogspot.com/2010/12/unsettling-god-heart-of-hebrew-bible.html)to read the review of Brueggeman's work - An Unsettling God.

Brueggeman concludes that there is a "basis for a genuine alternative to the nihilism of the modern world...This testimony of Israel, echoed by Christianity, not only gives different answers--it insists on different questions, wherein the answers offered are...tenuous"

[JN Anderson]

In the first chapter Brueggemann suggests Christians "in the present time" are to undergo a "recovery of the Jewishness in our ways of reading the text." (pg. 6) He says that "a recurring Christian propensity is to give closure to our readings and interpretations, it is recurringly Jewish to recognize that our readings are always provisional, because there is always another text, always another commentary, always another rabbinic midrash that moves beyond any particular reading."