Getting Involved with God Rediscovering the Old Testament

Name: Getting Involved with God Rediscovering the Old Testament
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ISBN: 9781561011971

ISBN-10: 1561011975

ISBN-13: 9781561011971

Edition: 2001

Authors: Ellen F. Davis

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This is a book about getting, and staying, involved with God--what it takes, what it costs, what it looks and feels like, and why anyone would want to do it anyway.

Book details

List price: $17.95
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Cowley Publications
Publication date: 1/25/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 5.80" wide x 8.54" long x 0.63" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English

Ellen F. Davis is Amos Ragan Kearns Professor of Bible and Practical Theology at Duke University Divinity School in Durham, North Carolina. She is the author of Who Are You, My Daughter? Reading Ruth Through Image and Text; Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Song of Songs and Getting Involved with God; and Imagination Shaped.



Introduction



Pain and Praise: The Psalms as Common Prayer



Improving Our Aim Praying the Psalms



"With My Tears I Melt My Mattress" The Psalms of Lament



But Surely Not Those! The Cursing Psalms



"Lamenting into Dancing" The Psalms of Praise



The Cost of Love



"I've Got to Turn Aside" The Burning Bush



"Take Your Son" The Binding of Isaac



"The One Whom My Soul Loves" The Song of Songs



The Art of Living Well



Wise Ignorance The Book of Proverbs



Simple Gifts The Book of Ecclesiastes



The Sufferer's Wisdom The Book of Job



Habits of the Heart



Desirable Discipline Proverbs 8



A Fool for Love Exodus 33



"Like Grass I'm Dried Up" Psalm 102



Voluntary Heartbreak Psalm 51



Serving in the Shadows Isaiah 49



Torah of the Earth



"Good-Faith Springs Up from the Earth": Learning Ecology From the Bible



Greed and Prophecy Numbers 11