Reconstructing Old Testament theology : after the collapse of history / Leo G. Perdue.

The present status of Old Testament theology -- From history as event to the history of religion: Religionsgeschichte and Biblical theology -- From Eurocentric history to voices from the margins: Liberation theology and ethnic Biblical interpretation -- From exclusion to inclusion: Feminist interpretations of history -- From history to rhetoric: Feminist, mujerista, and womanist theologies -- From Jewish tradition to Biblical theology: The Tanakh as a source for Jewish theology and practice -- From history to cultural context: Postmodernism -- From the Colonial Bible to the Postcolonial text: Biblical theology as contextual -- The changing future of Old Testament theology: A postscript.

Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza -- Discovering Eve: Carol Meyers's Feminist Social History of Ancient Israel -- A Critical Feminist Liberationist Interpretation of the Book of Jeremiah -- Evaluation.

Purdue 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. He 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. -- from publisher description.

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