Contents:

Introduction

Summaries of what is to come

The Book of Job

Life and Job

Job: Case study or theology

God and suffering-- 'it happens': Job's silent solution

The Book of Job: two questions, one answer

The Books of Samuel

Synchrony and the storyteller

Diachrony and synchrony: I Sam 24 and 26

From Philistine to throne (1 Sam 16:14-18:16)

Who dare wins: reflections on the story of David and Goliath and the understanding of human freedom

2 Samuel 21-24: The enigma factor

Narrative and storytelling

Pentateuch beyond sources: a new paradigm

The new biblical narrative

The storyteller's role: reported story and biblical text

Women storytellers in ancient Israel

Child sacrifice and God wrestling: Genesis 22 and 32

Preparatory issues in approaching biblical text

Form Criticism (OT)

The emergence of the form-critical and traditio-hisorical approaches

Form criticism's future

Structure analysis and the art of exegesis (1 Samuel 16:14-18:30)

Nature of the Bible

Creationism! Utterly unbiblical

The Bible's basic role

Word of God or Word of God's people: The Bible's view

The Pentateuch: Guard's Van or engine

Martin Noth and the Deuteronomistic history

Rethinking Revelation: the priority of the present over the past

The Reported story: Midway between Oral performance and literary art

Past history and present text: the clash of classical and post-critical approaches to biblical text

Relationship to God

St. Ignatius Loyolo and God's unconditional love

God: Jude or lover

The Growth of Joshua 1-12 and the theology of extermination

God, anger and the Old Testament

Dei Verbum: Literary forms and Vatican II-- an Old Testament perspective

The Good news and the year for priests

Qohelet The Wise

Reflections around Frank Gil's Have Life Abundantly: Grass Roots First

Some thoughts for a theologically Fuller Eucharistic Prayer