Contents:
1. Old Testament theology as narratives
- Theology
- Old Testament theology
- Old Testament gospel
- Old Testament story
2. God began creation
- God thought, God spoke, God birthed, God prevailed, God created, God built, God arranged, God shaped, God delegated, God planted, God relaxed
3. God started over from Eden to Babel
- Disobedience and discovery, expulsion and loss, violence and curse, fall and ruin, grace and exemption, realism and pledging, abuse and strife
4. God promised Israel's ancestors
- God's charge and God's promises, God's blessings: nationhood and land, being a blessing, Abraham's God and other peoples, promise and fulfillment, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, God who acts, relating to God, marriage and parenthood, family life
5. God delivered : the exodus
- God who creates and delivers, God who remembers, God who works via people, God who does signs and wonders, God who insists, God who reigns, Howe God is revealed, How God relates to foreign peoples, How God's resolve relates to human resolve, How God's act relates to the future
6. God sealed : Sinai
- Yhwh's covenant, Yhwh's expectations, Yhwh's presence: at the mountain, Yhwh's presence: in a sanctuary, Yhwh's presence: in experience, Yhwh's dilemma: punishment and mercy, facing up to infidelity, models of servanthood, models of peoplehood
7. God gave the land
- The people of God: sustained, disappointed and protesting, the people of God: bride and rebel, the people of God: chastised and mercied, War, its nature and its rationales, war as the means of receiving God's gift, the crusade for holiness, the acknowledgment of God, the gift of God: the land, the giving of God: fulfillment and shortfall
8. God accommodated from Joshua to Solomon
- One people, one God?, leadership, monarchy, temple, Israel and other peoples, being human, being men, being women, Yhwh's acting
9. God wrestled from Solomon to the exile
- Where Yhwh is active, what Yhwh expects, how Yhwh reacts, how history works, how Yhwh works, how kings exercise leadership, prophets as men of God, prophets as seers and sentinels, prophets as troublemakers, Is there a future?
10. God preserved: exile and restoration
- God abandoned, God returned, a restored community, a worshiping community, a listening community, a distinct community, a subservient community, a priest and theologian, a man who prays and builds walls, a wise politician, an intrepid woman
11. God sent: the coming of Jesus
- Jesus: herald of God's reign
- Jesus: prophet and teacher
- His followers
- Jesus: the man anointed as king
- Jesus: word embodied
- divine surrender
- The community of the risen Lord
- Jesus: light of the world