{"product_id":"the-old-testament-is-dying","title":"The Old Testament Is Dying","description":"The Old Testament makes up the majority of the Christian Bible and provides much of the language of Christian faith. However, many churches tend to neglect this crucial part of Scripture, leading to the loss of the Old Testament as a resource for faith and life.\n\nThis timely book shows how the Old Testament is like a language--a language is used and learned or it falls into disuse and eventually dies. Brent Strawn details a number of ways the Old Testament is showing signs of decay, demise, and imminent death in the church and criticizes common misunderstandings of the Old Testament that contribute to its neglect. He also shows that it is possible for a language to be recovered. Drawing fresh insight from recent studies of how languages die and are revived, Strawn offers strategies for renewing the use of the Old Testament in Christian faith and practice. This clearly written book will appeal to professors and students of the Old Testament as well as pastors and church leaders.\n\nAbout the Series\nThe Theological Explorations for the Church Catholic series is published in conjunction with Nazarene Theological Seminary in Kansas City, Missouri. Leading scholars in biblical studies and systematic theology from a variety of theological traditions offer brief, suggestive treatments of specific topics, exploring the cutting edge of their current interests and latest thinking for the benefit of the whole church.\n\nContents\n\nTestimonia\nPart 1: The Old Testament as a Dying Language\n1. The Old Testament Is Dying\nA (Non)Telling Vignette\nThe Diagnosis, in Brief, with a Caveat\nThe Old Testament Is (Like) a Language\nPlan of the Book and Two Additional Caveats\n2. Initial Testing\nThe U.S. Religious Knowledge Survey\nThe \"Best\"(?) Sermons\nThe Psalms in Mainline Hymnody\nThe Revised Common Lectionary (and the Psalms)\nConclusion\n3. On Language Growth and Change, Contact and Death\nLanguage Change and Language Contact\nPidgins and Creoles, Pidginization and Creolization\nLanguage Death\nConclusion\nPart 2: Signs of Morbidity\n4. The New Atheism\nDawkins and the New Atheists on the Old Testament\nAnswering Dawkins\nPidgin versus Pidgin\n5. Marcionites Old and New\nThe Old Marcion\nTertullian contra Marcion\nVon Harnack pro Marcion, or the New Marcion(ism)\nContra von Harnack, or the Deadly Ramifications\n6. New Plastic Gospels: The \"Happiologists\"\nThe Bible and Your Best Everything Right Now!\nAssessing Osteen \"and Company\"\nConclusion to Part 2\nPart 3: Path to Recovery\n7. Recommended Treatment\nOn Saving Dying Languages\nResurrecting Hebrew\nLearning First, New, and Very Old Languages\nBilingualism and Code-Switching\nIt Could Happen to You (Us)\n8. Saving the Old Testament\nEvidence of Further Decline\nDeuteronomy as a Model of\/for Second-Language Acquisition (SLA)\n9. Ways Forward and Not\nThe Most Basic (and Obvious) Recommendation: Regular Use\nThe Need for Adequate Linguistic Training\nIntentionality in Language Practice and Language Learning\nOn Creating Bilinguals\nOn \"Bothness\"\nThe Challenge of Future Change\nMusic, Memory, Poetry, . . . and Children (Again)\nConclusion\nAppendix 1: Newton Series\nAppendix 2: Butler Series\nAppendix 3: Cox Series\nAppendix 4: Size of Testaments\nAppendix 5: Sermon Data from Walter Brueggemann\nAppendix 6: Old Testament Texts Used by Walter Brueggemann\nIndexes","brand":"Brent A Strawn","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55281254269304,"sku":"9780801048883","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0611\/9351\/9316\/files\/10028302_LRG.jpg?v=1758161882","url":"https:\/\/etcevents.co.uk\/products\/the-old-testament-is-dying","provider":"ETCEvents","version":"1.0","type":"link"}