Getting Involved with God
Rediscovering the Old Testament
1st Edition
Published on 25. January 2001
224 pages
979-8-7651-9374-7 (ISBN)
Description
"This is a book about getting, and staying, involved with God-what it takes, what it costs, what it looks and feels like, why anyone would want to do it anyway. It is at the same time a book about reading the Old Testament as a source of Good News and guidance for our life with God. The key piece of Good News that the Old Testament communicates over and over again is that God is involved with us, deeply and irrevocably so."
-from the Introduction
With sound scholarship and her own vivid translations from the Hebrew, Old Testament professor Ellen Davis teaches us a spiritually engaged method of reading scripture. Beginning with the psalms, whose frank prayers can be a model for our own, Davis reflects on the stories of the patriarchs and the pastoral wisdom of the book of Job, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, and the Song of Songs in helping us cultivate those habits of the heart that lead to a rich relationship with God.
-from the Introduction
With sound scholarship and her own vivid translations from the Hebrew, Old Testament professor Ellen Davis teaches us a spiritually engaged method of reading scripture. Beginning with the psalms, whose frank prayers can be a model for our own, Davis reflects on the stories of the patriarchs and the pastoral wisdom of the book of Job, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, and the Song of Songs in helping us cultivate those habits of the heart that lead to a rich relationship with God.
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Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Target group
Professional and scholarly
ISBN-13
979-8-7651-9374-7 (9798765193747)
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01/2001
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
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Person
ELLEN F. DAVIS is Associate Professor of Bible and Practical Theology at Duke Divinity School. She has previously taught at Union Seminary, Yale Divinity School, and the Virginia Theological Seminary. Her other books include a theological commentary on Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, and the Song of Songs, and Imagination Shaped: Old Testament Preaching in the Anglican Tradition.
Content
Part 1 Introduction
Part 2 Pain and Praise: The Psalms as Common Prayer
Chapter 3 Improving Our Aim: Praying the Psalms
Chapter 4 "With My Tears I Melt My Mattress": The Psalms of Lament
Chapter 5 "But Surely Not Those!": The Cursing Psalms
Chapter 6 "Lamenting into Dancing": The Psalms of Praise
Part 7 The Cost of Love
Chapter 8 "I've Got to Turn Aside": The Burning Bush
Chapter 9 "Take Your Son": The Binding of Isaac
Chapter 10 "The One Whom My Soul Loves": The Song of Songs
Part 11 The Art of Living Well
Chapter 12 Wise Ignorance: The Book of Proverbs
Chapter 13 Simple Gifts: The Book of Ecclesiastes
Chapter 14 The Sufferer's Wisdom: The Book of Job
Part 15 Habits of the Heart
Chapter 16 Desirable Discipline: Proverbs 8
Chapter 17 A Fool for Love: Exodus 33
Chapter 18 "Like Grass I'm Dried Up": Psalm 102
Chapter 19 Voluntary Heartbreak: Psalm 51
Chapter 20 Serving in the Shadows: Isaiah 49
Part 21 Torah of the Earth
Chapter 22 "Good-Faith Springs Up from the Earth": An Essay in Biblical Ecology
Chapter 23 Greed and Prophecy: Numbers 11
Part 2 Pain and Praise: The Psalms as Common Prayer
Chapter 3 Improving Our Aim: Praying the Psalms
Chapter 4 "With My Tears I Melt My Mattress": The Psalms of Lament
Chapter 5 "But Surely Not Those!": The Cursing Psalms
Chapter 6 "Lamenting into Dancing": The Psalms of Praise
Part 7 The Cost of Love
Chapter 8 "I've Got to Turn Aside": The Burning Bush
Chapter 9 "Take Your Son": The Binding of Isaac
Chapter 10 "The One Whom My Soul Loves": The Song of Songs
Part 11 The Art of Living Well
Chapter 12 Wise Ignorance: The Book of Proverbs
Chapter 13 Simple Gifts: The Book of Ecclesiastes
Chapter 14 The Sufferer's Wisdom: The Book of Job
Part 15 Habits of the Heart
Chapter 16 Desirable Discipline: Proverbs 8
Chapter 17 A Fool for Love: Exodus 33
Chapter 18 "Like Grass I'm Dried Up": Psalm 102
Chapter 19 Voluntary Heartbreak: Psalm 51
Chapter 20 Serving in the Shadows: Isaiah 49
Part 21 Torah of the Earth
Chapter 22 "Good-Faith Springs Up from the Earth": An Essay in Biblical Ecology
Chapter 23 Greed and Prophecy: Numbers 11
