Introduction: In the Fray and at Risk Timothy K. Beal and Tod Linafelt Part One: Engaging Brueggemann's Theology 1. Rhetorical, Historical and Ontological Counterpoints in Doing Old Testament Theology (Norman K. Gottwald) 2. Some Reflections on Brueggemann's God (Terence E. Freitheim) 3. Confronting the Character of God (David R. Blementhal) Part Two: God in the Torah 4.

Was Everything That God Created Really Good? (James Barr) 5. Genocide's Lament: Moses, Pharaoh's Daughter, and the Former Yugoslavia (Nancy Lee) 6. The Sojourner Has Come to Play the Judge: Theodicy on Trial (James L. Crenshaw) 7. God's Commandment (Dale Patrick) 8. "God Is Not a Human That He Should Repent" (R. W. L.

Moberly) Part Three: God in the Prophets 9. colonialism and the Vagaries of Scripture (David M. Gunn) 10. "Who Is Blind But My Servant?" How Then Shall We Read Isaiah? (Ronald E. clements) 11. The Metaphor of the Rock in Biblical Theology (Samuel Terrien) 12. The Tears of God and Divine Character in Jeremiah 2-9 (Kathleen M. O'Connor) 13.

Alas for the Day! The "Day of the Lord" in the Book of the Twelve (Rolf Rendtorff) Part Four: God in the Writings 14. Prayer and Divine Action (Patrick D. Miller) 15. The Complaint against God (Claus Westermann) 16. Quarter Days Gone: Job 24 and the Absence of God (David J. A. Clines) 17. "What Are Human Beings, That You Make So Much of Them?" (Samuel E.

Balentine) 18. Divine Incongruitites in the Book of Jonah (Phyllis Trible) 19. The Impossibility of Mourning: Lamentations after the Holocaust (Tod Linafelt) 20. Chasosmopolis:.