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75 - Walter Brueggemann on Reading the Old Testament

Conversing with Mark Labberton

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Why We Should Really Fall in Love With the Old Testament

Bible literacy in general is falling off, and the quality of people's familiarity with the stories are less. And when they're known, they're often heard in a kind of two-dimensional way rather than anything that's as rich as what you've just described. So if I was to ask you to give us the pitch for why we should really fall in love with the Old Testament, what are some of the things you'd say? Well, it's so Jewish, and Jewishness means that it's conflicted and multi-vocal and multi-layered and complex,. That's the nature of the God who indwells the text.

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