Fortress Press

"Our common debt to Perdue for this book is very great. His close attention to detail, matched with a capacity to see the larger picture, means that he has in an inventive way formulated something of a 'canonical' account of current scholarship.... Perdue has made clear that every scholarly attempt now must take into account voices other than one's own. The point of that awareness is that every interpretive offer is kept open as penultimate, an important awareness in our culture where interpretation too much takes on the shrill tone of absoluteness."
— Walter Brueggemann, from the Editor's Foreword

1. The Present Status of Old Testament Theology
   Introduction
   Reasons for the Collapse of History
   After the Collapse of History
   New Approaches: The Fundamental Assumptions
   Description of the Present Task
   
   
2. From History as Event to the History of Religion: Religionsgeschichte and Biblical Theology
   Introduction
   The History of Religion and/or Biblical Theology?
   The Theology of Jeremiah and the History of Religion
   Evaluation
   
   
3. From Eurocentric History to Voices from the Margins: Liberation Theology and Ethnic Biblical Interpretation
   Introduction
   Liberation Theology in Latin America
   Segovia's Theology of the Diaspora
   African American Theology and Biblical Interpretation
   Jeremiah and a Theology of the Diaspora
   Jeremiah and African American Biblical Theology
   Evaluation
   
   
4. From Exclusion to Inclusion: Feminist Interpretations of History
   Introduction
   Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza
   Discovering Eve: Carol Meyer's Feminist Social History of Ancient Israel
   A Critical Feminist Liberationist Interpretation of the Book of Jeremiah
   Evaluation
   
   
5. From History to Rhetoric: Feminist, Mujerista, and Womanist Theologies
   Introduction
   Feminist Literary Critics and Biblical Interpretation
   Feminist Metaphorical Theology: Sallie McFague
   Recapturing the Language of Zion: Rhetorical Criticism and Feminist Hermeneutics
   Womanist Biblical Interpretation
   Mujerista Biblical Interpretation
   Evaluation
   
   
6. From Jewish Tradition to Biblical Theology: The Tanakh as a Source for Jewish Theology and Practice
   Introduction
   Jews Who Do Biblical Theology
   From Traditum to Traditio: Michael Fishbane
   Exegetical Imagination: Midrashic and Mythopoeic Images
   The Myth of the Return to Chaos in Jeremiah
   Conclusion
   
   
7. From History to Cultural Context: Postmodernism
   Postmodernism: Tenets and Theorists
   Postmodernism and Biblical Interpretation
   Postmodernism, Biblical Theology, and Jeremiash: Walter Brueggemann
   The Value and Limits of Postmodernism
   
   
8. From the Colonial Bible to the Postcolonial Text: Biblical Theology as Contextual
   Postcolonialism
   The Stages of Postcolonialism and Its Impact on Subaltern Religion
   Characteristics of Subaltern Writings and Readings in Religion and Theology
   Voices from the Third World: Male and Female
   Postcolonial Biblical Theology in Geographical Settings: The Case of Senegal
   A Second Example of Postcolonial Biblical Theology: India and Dalit Theology
   A Postcolonial Interperation of the Theology of Jeremiah
   
   
9. The Changing Future of Old Testament Theology: A Postscript
   Concluding Observations
   Constructing a Paradigm for Old Testament Theology