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A Theology of the Old Testament: Cultural Memory, Communication, and Being Human Paperback – March 15, 2010

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The remarkable thing about the Old Testament is the persistence of its visions of a better humanity and a better world. Rather than seek to establish "what people may or may not once have believed in ancient Israel," John W. Rogerson addresses "the human condition in today's world," asking what interpreters are doing today when they invoke the biblical texts. He draws on the insights of modern thinkers, including Benjamin and Bloch, Adorno and Horkheimer, Assmann and Habermas, to explore the dynamics of cultural memory in human communication.

In the texts of ancient Israel, Rogerson distinguishes "hot" cultural situations, alive to the remarkable potential of narratives that describe unfulfilled human aspirations to open up horizons of change, from "cold" cultural situations, where those potentialities are closed down to reinforce the institutional structures of the status quo. Moving throughout narrative, legal, wisdom, and prophetic corpora and offering fresh and compelling insights at every step, A Theology of the Old Testament draws out powerful visions of human nature and of the world's future. Throughout Rogerson poses the challenge: Do these visions require a theological basis to be compelling in today's world, or can they speak as powerfully beyond the confines of religious belief?

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    March 15, 2010
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  6. ISBN-10
    0800697154
  7. ISBN-13
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John W. Rogerson is Professor of Biblical Studies Emeritus at the University of Sheffield and a Canon Emeritus of Sheffield Cathedral. His many books include Myth in Old Testament Interpretation (1974), Old Testament Criticism in the Nineteenth Century (1984), and The Bible and Criticism in Victorian Britain (1995), and (as editor) Introduction to the Bible (1999, 2nd ed. 2005), The Oxford Illustrated History of the Bible (2001) and (with Judith M. Lieu) The Oxford Handbook of Biblical Studies (2006).

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Fortress Press; 1st edition (March 15, 2010)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 224 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0800697154
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0800697150
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 8.8 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.6 x 8.9 inches
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Helen Hancox
4.0 out of 5 stars Cultural memory, communication and being human
Reviewed in the United States on September 29, 2009
John Rogerson was one of my lecturers at University when I attended in the early 1990s. Even then he talked about writing his theology, so I was very interested to see what it was about when it was finally published this year.

Since my University days I've found it more and more difficult to take the Old Testament seriously in the light of the modern world. The activities of a group of people who portray themselves as successfully warlike (although the evidence is rather thin for that historically) and who wander around the Middle East trying to keep themselves separate seems far removed from our world, let alone the fact that their God is, at times, fairly unpleasant. I had hopes that this theology might address some of those thoughts.

But this theology isn't a systematic theology or an explanation of how the God of the Old Testament reconciles with the God of the new. It is actually a rather interesting new angle (to me at least), which was taking the Old Testament and applying some of the underlying themes to the modern world, to global dilemmas that we face. John Rogerson approaches stories and characters that are very familiar to us (Jacob, Joseph, Job, some of the laws in Deuteronomy) and from them extracts ideas about how the ancients may have understood communication - us with the divine - and more.

I found the book very interesting and Rogerson's excellently clear writing style was present as usual. His own translations of many extracts from the Old Testament were also fresh and readable, with Hebrew characters transliterated into Roman for those who don't read Hebrew. His interest in and thorough study of German theologians comes through at all times in this book and the enormous bibliography, and the vast amount of research that has clearly been done for this book, make it an excellent read for all those interested in the Old Testament.
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