Approaching Yehud: New Approaches to the Study of the Persian Period (Society of Biblical Literature Semeia Studies)
The book is an important one because it summons readers to much unlearning and relearning about the Bible. The unlearning concerns the historical positivism in which most progressives are schooled. The relearning involves seeing, as against a static view of scripture, that the Bible is a generative, intentionally constructive tradition that is a response to particular historical crises that jeopardized the identity of the community. The generative, constructive quality of the text is on exhibit everywhere in this collection of essays. --Walter Brueggemann, Christian Century