Table of Contents
I. Deuteronomy: Theology that Laughs and Sings
1. The First Commandment and Sarah's Laughter
2. Deuteronomy: A Strange but True Story
II. The Shema: Core Theology
3. The Shema: Confession, Testimony, Command
III. Hear: The Story
4. Hearing the Story
5. The Story in the Text: Narrative World and "What the BibleSays"
6. The Story behind the Text: "Quest of the Historical Israel?"
7. The Story of the Text: The living voice became a Book
8. The Story of the Text: The Book became Canonical Scripture
9. The Story of the Text: Canonical Scripture became a translation
10. TheStory of the Text: Preachers and teachers interpret the book in the life of the Church
IV. Israel: The People
11. 'All Israel': Who Is Included?
12. Israel's Story as My Story: Ecclesial Hermeneutics
13. A Difficulty Test Case Divine and Human Violence
V. The Lord our God: The Torah
14. The Torah for All Israel "It's About God"
15. Where We AreBetween the Times, Between Two Cultures
16. Who We Are "AllIsrael" What God Requires of Us "Do Justice, Love Mercy, Walk Humbly"
Concluding Unparabolic Postscript "Places in the HeartSally Field and the Promised Land"