Dorp concern for communication of Scripture and its meaning is reflected in the essays in this volume. In these pages. Brurggemann turns directly to his largest audience, pastors of congregations who week by week take up the word to preach it. Euthfully and who reg ularly find that this Old Testament scholar brings it to life for them, In "Bruggemann articulates) his claim that the voiers of Sctipture are in a delsste (the courtroom, that they are advocates of a point of view, that 'voice of speech is all we have from them, that the Other is unaccommodating, and that the Other is undoubted. this generation, there is no stronger or cleaner spokesperson for the testimony of Israel as a word to the communsty of faith."