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by Dr. Walter Brueggemann Professor of Old Testament Eden Theological Seminary St. Louis, Missouri
Marquette University Press Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53233
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Library of Congress Catalogue Card Number: 86-060473
Copyright 1986 Marquette University Press
ISBN 0-87462-541-6
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Preface
The 1986 Pre Marquette Lecture is the seventeenth in a series inaugurated to celebrate the Tercentenary of the missions and explorations of Pre Marquette, S.J. (1637-1675). The Marquette University Theology Department, founded in 1952, launched these annual lectures by distinguished theologians under the title of the Pre Marquette Lectures in 1969. The 1986 Lecture has the distinction of being the first event in the year long celebration of Marquette's twenty-five years of experience in graduate theology, the doctoral and master's degree programs, which were the outgrowth of a solidly academic undergraduate structure.
The 1986 lecture was delivered at Marquette University, April 20, 1986, by Dr. Walter Brueggemann, Professor of Old Testament, Eden Theological Seminary, St. Louis, Missouri.
Dr. Brueggemann holds a Th.D. (Old Testament) from Union Theological Seminary and a Ph.D. (Education) from St. Louis University. His sabbatical studies have taken him to the Universities of Heidelberg and Cambridge.
The American theological community is familiar with Dr. Brueggemann's service as
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a member of the Editorial Council of the Journal of Biblical Literature, Advisory Council of Interpretation, and the Executive Committee of the Association of Theological Schools. He is the founding editor of the series "Overtures to Biblical Theology" from Fortress Press.
Dr. Brueggemann's books include The Bible Makes Sense (1977), The Land (1977), The Prophetic Imagination (1978), Genesis (1982), Praying the Psalms (1982), The Creative Word (1982), I Kings and II Kings (1983), and David's Truth in Israel's Imagination & Memory (1985). He has published numerous articles in national and international scholarly journals.
The works of Dr. Brueggemann generally are representative of current trends in Old Testament scholarship and form part of the cutting edge of contemporary research. His knowledge of new directions and findings make his work treasure-troves of information and insight. This lecture makes use of two recently honed methods of biblical scholarship sociological reading and literary analysis and applies them to Joshua 11, a passage that has been a problem for many who look to the Bible to give life.
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Revelation and Violence: A Study in Contextualization
The conviction that scripture is revelatory literature is a constant, abiding conviction among the communities of Jews and Christians which gather around the book.1 But that conviction, constant and abiding as it is, is problematic and open to a variety of alternative and often contradictory of ambiguous meanings.2 Clearly that conviction is appropriated differently in various contexts and various cultural settings.3 Current attention to hermeneutics convinces many of us that there is no single, sure meaning for any text. The revelatory power of the text is discerned and given precisely through the action of interpretation which is always concrete, never universal, always contextualized, never "above the fray," always filtered through vested interest, never in disinterested purity.4
If that is true for the interpretive end of the process which receives the text, we may
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entertain the notion that it is also true for the interpretive end of the process which forms, shapes and offers the text. That is, not only in its hearing, but also in its speaking, the text makes its disclosure in ways that are concrete, contextualized, and filtered through vested interest. While this leaves open the charge of relativism, it is in fact only a candid acknowledgement of the central conviction around which historical-critical studies have revolved for 200 years. Historical-critical studies have insisted that a text can only be understood in context. Historical-critical study believes historical context is necessary to hearing the text. But our objectivist ideology has uncritically insisted that knowledge of historical context of a text would let us be objective interpreters without recognizing that from its very inception, the textual process is not and cannot be objective.5
Historical-critical study thus gives us access to a certain interpretive act which generates the text, but that original interpretive act is not objective. This acknowledgement of the formation of the text as a constructive event is a recognition of what we know about ourselves, that we are not only meaning
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receivers, but we are also meaning makers. We not only accept meanings offered, but we construct meanings which we advocate.6 The receiving, constructing act of interpretation changes both us and the text. This suggests that scripture as revelation is never simply a final disclosure, but is an ongoing act of disclosing which will never let the disclosure be closed. The disclosing process is an open interaction with choices exercised in every step of interpretation from formation to reception.
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