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Walter Brueggemann is a prolific writer. He has written many books and hundred of articles that have influenced Old Testament scholarship in profound ways. Brueggemann has written a new book, An Unsettling God: The Heart of the Hebrew Bible (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2009). This new book speaks of Israel’s testimony to a surprising God.

Describing the content of the book, John Goldingay of Fuller Theological Seminary, wrote:

“An unsettling God? ‘An unsettling Walter Brueggemann,’ some of my students would say. He keeps making them see things in the Old Testament that clash with what they have been told about God, and making them reframe and expand their understanding of God as the Bible describes God. He does that in these chapters from the heart of his Theology of the Old Testament. This is an unsettling experience but a constructive one.”

To promote Brueggemann’s book, Fortress Press has made available the Table of Contents, the Preface, and Chapter 1 of the book in PDF format.

An Unsettling God is another book that will be included in my long list of books that I must read in the near future.

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Claude Mariottini
Professor of Old Testament
Northern Baptist Seminary

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