Walter Brueggemann crafts a First Testament theology around the organizing principle of Israel's speech about God. He discusses the themes of First Testament thought in four categories: Israel's Core Testimony, Israel's Countertestimony, Israel's Unsolicited Testimony, and Embodied Narrative. He attempts to generate a dynamic theology that captures the rhetorical power of the biblical text. With his own classic style he theologizes excellently on the text in a mode designed to address the needs of theologians, teachers, and preachers, more so than critical scholars. He eschews the Historical Critical Method in favor of post-modern criticism, which this reviewer feels is a mistake.
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