Hopeful imagination
Subtitle: prophetic voices in exile
By: Walter Brueggemann.
Edition: /
Publisher: Fortress Press
Published: 1986
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 146
Copyright date: 1986
Subjects: Bible. O.T. Jeremiah -- Criticism, interpretation, etc; Bible. O.T. Ezekiel -- Criticism, interpretation, etc; Bible. O.T. Isaiah -- Criticism, interpretation, etc
First sentence: This book seeks to do two interpretive tasks at the same time.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 134-146.
Table of contents: label: Preface
title: ix; label: Introduction: Exile and the Voice of Hope
title: 1; label: Part 1. Only Grief Permits Newness
title: 9; label: 1. Jeremiah—Designed for Conflict
title: 10; label: 2. "Because No One Cares" (Jer. 30:12-17)
title: 32; label: Part 2. Only Holiness Gives Hope
title: 49; label: 3. Ezekiel—Touch and Submissive
title: 50; label: 4. "For the Sake of My Holy Name" (Ezek. 36:22-32)
title: 69; label: Part 3: Only Memory Allows Possibility
title: 89; label: 5. Second Isaiah—Homecoming to a New Home
title: 90; label: 6. "Sing, O Barren One" (Isa. 54:1-17)
title: 109; label: Conclusion: Hurt as Hope's Home
title: 131; label: Notes
title: 134