TY - BOOK AU - Perdue,Leo G TI - Reconstructing Old Testament theology: after the collapse of history T2 - Overtures to biblical theology SN - 9780800637163 AV - BS1192 .R436 2005 PY - 2005/// CY - Minneapolis, Minnesota PB - Fortress Press KW - Bible KW - Old Testament KW - Theology KW - History KW - 20th century N1 - 1 (pages 353-385) and index; 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; 2; https://ciu.libwizard.com/f/copyright-requests N2 - 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 UR - http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip058/2005003316.html ER -