The Old Testament Is Dying by Strawn, Brent A. -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Page Copyright Page Endoresement Page Dedication Contents Series Preface Author Preface Abbreviations Testimonia Part 1: The Old Testament as a Dying Language

1. The Old Testament Is Dying

A (Non)Telling Vignette The Diagnosis, in Brief, with a Caveat The Old Testament Is (Like) a Language Plan of the Book and Two Additional Caveats

2. Initial Testing

The U.S. Religious Knowledge Survey The “Best”(?) Sermons The Psalms in Mainline Hymnody The Revised Common Lectionary (and the Psalms) Conclusion

3. On Language Growth and Change, Contact and Death

Language Change and Language Contact Pidgins and Creoles, Pidginization and Creolization Language Death Conclusion

Part 2: Signs of Morbidity

4. The New Atheism

Dawkins and the New Atheists on the Old Testament Answering Dawkins Pidgin versus Pidgin

5. Marcionites Old and New

The Old Marcion Tertullian contra Marcion Von Harnack pro Marcion, or the New Marcion(ism) Contra von Harnack, or the Deadly Ramifications

6. New Plastic Gospels: The “Happiologists”

The Bible and Your Best Everything Right Now! Assessing Osteen “and Company” Conclusion to Part 2

Part 3: Path to Recovery

7. Recommended Treatment

On Saving Dying Languages Resurrecting Hebrew Learning First, New, and Very Old Languages Bilingualism and Code-Switching It Could Happen to You (Us)

8. Saving the Old Testament

Evidence of Further Decline Deuteronomy as a Model of/for Second-Language Acquisition (SLA)

9. Ways Forward and Not

The Most Basic (and Obvious) Recommendation: Regular Use The Need for Adequate Linguistic Training Intentionality in Language Practice and Language Learning On Creating Bilinguals On “Bothness” The Challenge of Future Change Music, Memory, Poetry . . . and Children (Again) Conclusion

Newton Series Butler Series Cox Series Size of Testaments Sermon Data from Walter Brueggemann Old Testament Texts Used by Walter Brueggemann Bibliography Scripture and Ancient Sources Index Modern Authors Index Subject Index Notes Back Cover

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