TY - BOOK AU - Brueggemann,Walter AU - Miller,Patrick D. TI - A social reading of the Old Testament: prophetic approaches to Israel's communal life SN - 9780800627348 AV - BS1192 PY - 1994/// CY - Minneapolis PB - Fortress Press KW - Bible KW - Old Testament KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc KW - Sociology, Biblical N1 - 2; Introduction; Patrick D. Miller --; 1. Trajectories in Old Testament Literature and the Sociology of Ancient Israel --; 2. Covenant as a Subversive Paradigm --; 3. Covenant and Social Possibility --; 4. Social Criticism and Social Vision in the Deuteronomic Formula of the Judges --; 5. "Vine and Fig Tree": A Case Study in Imagination and Criticism --; 6. At the Mercy of Babylon: A Subversive Rereading of the Empire --; 7. A Poem of Summons (Isaiah 55:1-3) and a Narrative of Resistance (Daniel 1) --; 8. Israel's Social Criticism and Yahweh's Sexuality --; 9. Theodicy in a Social Dimension --; 10. The Social Nature of the Biblical Text for Preaching --; 11. The Prophet as a Destabilizing Presence --; 12. The Social Significance of Solomon as a Patron of Wisdom --; 13. Rethinking Church Models through Scripture --; 14. Reflections on Biblical Understandings of Property --; 15. Revelation and Violence: A Study in Contextualization; 2 ER -