Divine Presence amid Violence. Walter Brueggemann

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      Divine Presence amid Violence

      Contextualizing the Book of Joshua

      Walter Brueggemann

      DIVINE PRESENCE AMID VIOLENCE

      Contextualizing the Book of Joshua

      Copyright © 2009 Walter Brueggemann. All rights reserved. Except for brief quotations in critical publications or reviews, no part of this book may be reproduced in any manner without prior written permission from the publisher. Write: Permissions, Wipf and Stock Publishers, 199 W. 8th Ave., Suite 3, Eugene, OR 97401.

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      isbn 13: 978-1-60608-089-4

      Cataloging-in-publication data:

      Brueggemann, Walter.

      Divine presence amid violence : contextualizing the book of Joshua / Walter Brueggemann.

      xii + 82 p. ; 20 cm. Includes bibliographical references and index.

      Eugene, Ore.: Cascade Books

      isbn 13: 978-1-60608-089-4

      1. War—Biblical teaching. 2. Bible. O.T. Joshua—Criticism, interpretation, etc. 3. Revelation. I. Title.

      bs1199 w2 b78 2009

      Manufactured in the U.S.A.

      New Revised Standard Version Bible, copyright 1989, Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

      For

      Marilyn Stavenger

      I am delighted to dedicate this book to Marilyn Stavenger, my longtime comrade in ministry. Marilyn has modeled critical generosity in ministry that is respectful, dialogical, and empowering. It is appropriate that she be mentioned in this book because her generous feminism has lived out a faithful life of nonviolent transformative power. I am glad to count her a dear friend and treasured companion in ministry.

      Introduction

      Elsewhere I have summarized our situation with regard to knowing and interpretation:

      In place of objective certitude and settled hegemony, we would now characterize our knowing in ways that make mastery and control much more problematic, if indeed mastery and control can any longer be our intention at all. I would characterize our new intellectual situation in these rather obvious ways:

      1. Our knowing is inherently contextual. This should hardly come to us as a surprise. Descartes wanted to insist that context was not relevant to knowing. It is, however, now clear that what one knows and sees depends upon where one stands or sits . . .

      2. It follows that contexts are quite local, and the more one generalizes, the more one loses or fails to notice context. Localism means that it is impossible to voice large truth. All one can do is to voice local truth and propose that it pertains elsewhere. In fact, I should insist that all our knowing is quite local, even when we say it in a loud voice . . .