A Social Reading of the Old Testament

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 them-the hidden agendas that underlie the making and reading of Scripturethe conflictual tension in ancient Israelthe cry to God of the oppressed and God's responsethe political dimension of mercytheodicy, violence, horses, and chariotsBrueggemann opens to a variety of readers a compelling picture of subversive paradigm and social possibility in the Hebrew Bible.