num_pages: 416
description: In this informative and keen look at contemporary trends in Old Testament theology, Perdue builds on his earlier volume The Collapse of History (1994). He investigates how a variety of perspectives and methodologies have impacted how the Old Testament is read in the twenty-first century literary criticism; rhetorical criticism, feminist, womanist, and mujerista theologies, liberation theology; Jewish theology; postmodernism; and postcolonialism. Perdue 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.
language: English
title: Reconstructing Old Testament Theology: After the Collapse of History
titlecomplete: Reconstructing Old Testament Theology: After the Collapse of History
genres: Theology
ratings_count: 12
series: Overtures to Biblical Theology
publisher: Fortress Press