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Article: Like Fire in the Bones: Listening for the Prophetic Word in Jeremiah.(Book review)
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- Biblical Theology Bulletin
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- December 22, 2008
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Like Fire in the Bones: Listening to the Prophetic Word in Jeremiah. By Walter Brueggemann, Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2006. Pp. xvi + 225. Cloth, $35.00.
The present publication is a compilation of articles by one of North America's most influential Old Testament theologians, originally published from the 1980s to 2002, and now presented as 15 chapters in a monograph.
The first five chapters present exegetical readings of the book of Jeremiah. Here we meet the author as a meticulous exegete with an eye for important and revealing textual features. Already in this part of the volume Brueggemann reveals himself to be more interested in theology than in ...