Genesis: Interpretation: A Bible Commentary for Teaching and Preaching

by Walter Brueggemann

Overview

This series offers a full interpretation of the biblical text, combining historical scholarship and theological purpose. It brings an understanding of what the text says into dialogue with the critical questions and problems of contemporary life and faith. Interpretation revives the neglected art of expository writing that explains the books of the Bible as the Holy Scripture of a church active at worship and work. Teachers, preachers, and all serious students of the Bible will find here an interpretation that takes serious hermeneutical responsibility for the contemporary meaning and significance of the biblical text

The comments deal with whole portions or sections of text that are used in teaching and preaching rather than with individual verses and words. Each volume of this series clarifies the sense of the text's language in its literary-historical context and reflects on the meaning of the text in light of its use in the liturgy and the theology of the church. Each suggests ways in which the text addresses faith and life today.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780664234379
Publisher:	Presbyterian Publishing
Publication date:	01/25/2010
Series:	Interpretation: A Bible Commentary for Teaching and Preaching Series
Pages:	398
Sales rank:	446,589
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.89(d)

About the Author

Walter Brueggemann is William Marcellus McPheeters Professor of Old Testament Emeritus at Columbia Theological Seminary. He is the world's leading interpreter of the Old Testament and is the author of numerous books, including Westminster John Knox Press best sellers such as Genesis and First and Second Samuel in the Interpretation series, An Introduction to the Old Testament: The Canon and Christian Imagination, and Reverberations of Faith: A Theological Handbook of Old Testament Themes.