Reconstructing Old Testament Theology: After the Collapse of History

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Fortress Press - 399 páginas
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.

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The Present Status of Old Testament Theology
1
Reasons for the Collapse of History
8
After the Collapse of History
14
The Fundamental Assumptions
17
Description of the Present Task
21
From History as Event to the History of Religion Religionsgeschichte and Biblical Theology
25
The History of Religion andor Biblical Theology?
31
The Theology of Jeremiah and the History of Religion
69
Mujerista Biblical Interpretation
173
Evaluation
180
From Jewish Tradition to Biblical Theology The Tanakh as a Source for Jewish Theology and Practice
183
Jews Who Do Biblical Theology
194
Michael Fishbane
215
Midrashic and Mythopoeic Images
225
Conclusion
236
From History to Cultural Context Postmodernism
239

Evaluation
73
From Eurocentric History to Voices from the Margins Liberation Theology and Ethnic Biblical Interpretation
76
Liberation Theology in Latin America
77
Segovias Theology of the Diaspora
80
African American Theology and Biblical Interpretation
88
Jeremiah and a Theology of the Diaspora
99
Jeremiah and African American Biblical Theology
100
From Exclusion to Inclusion Feminist Interpretations of History
102
Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza
109
Carol Meyerss Feminist Social History of Ancient Israel
135
A Critical Feminist Liberationist Interpretation of the Book of Jeremiah
139
Evaluation
144
From History to Rhetoric Feminist Mujerista and Womanist Theologies
145
Feminist Literary Critics and Biblical Interpretation
146
Sallie McFague
151
Rhetorical Criticism and Feminist Hermeneutics
159
Womanist Biblical Interpretation
166
Postmodernism and Biblical Interpretation
248
Walter Brueggemann
265
The Value and Limits of Postmodernism
266
From the Colonial Bible to the Postcolonial Text Biblical Theology as Contextual
280
The Stages of Postcolonialism and Its Impact on Subaltern Religion
292
Characteristics of Subaltern Writings and Readings in Religion and Theology
300
Male and Female
307
The Case of Senegal
319
India and Dalit Theology
329
A Postcolonial Interpretation of the Theology of Jeremiah
336
The Changing Future of Old Testament Theology A Postscript
340
Constructing a Paradigm for Old Testament Theology
345
Bibliography
353
Index of Modern Names
387
Index of Scripture
397
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