Kathleen M. O'Connor

Kathleen M. O'Connor teaches Old Testament at Columbia Theological Seminary in Decatur, Georgia.

Articles by Kathleen M. O'Connor

Books

“Come Out, My People!”

God’s Call out of Empire in the Bible and Beyond

By Wes Howard-Brook

Grounded in the Living Word: The Old Testament and Pastoral Care Practices

By Denise Dombkowski Hopkins and Michael S. Koppel

The Bible and the Environment

Towards a Critical Ecological Biblical Theology

By David G. Horrell

Genesis for Everyone

(Part 2: Chapters 17–50)

By John Goldingay

Moses and Multiculturalism

By Barbara Johnson

Joshua

By J. Gordon McConville and Stephen N. Williams

Justice Rising

The Emerging Biblical Vision

By John Heagle

Disruptive Grace

Reflections on God, Scripture, and the Church

By Walter Brueggemann; edited by Carolyn Sharp

The Bible

The Basics

By John Barton

Soundings in the Theology of Psalms

Perspectives and Methods in Contemporary Scholarship

Edited by Rolf A. Jacobson

Wrestling the Word

The Hebrew Scriptures and the Christian Believer

By Carolyn J. Sharp

Old Testament

Take & read

Apr 26, 2011 selected by Kathleen M. O'Connor

"Come Out, My People!": God's Call out of Empire in the Bible and Beyond, by Wes Howard-Brook. Howard-Brook creates a lively conversation between contemporary struggles over the demands of empire and biblical struggles with the various empires that sought to control Israel across its history.

Books

Ancient Laws and Contemporary Controversies: The Need for Inclusive Biblical Interpretation

Cheryl B. Anderson

The Seven Pillars of Creation: The Bible, Science, and the Ecology of Wonder

William P. Brown

The Labor of Job: The Biblical Text as a Parable of Human Labor

Antonio Negri

Journey to the Common Good

Walter Brueggemann

Psalms for Preaching and Worship: A Lectionary Commentary

Roger E. Van Harn and Brent A. Strawn, eds.

Proverbs (Abingdon Old Testament Commentaries)

Christine Roy Yoder

The Africana Bible: Reading Israel's Scriptures from Africa and the African Diaspora

Hugh R. Page Jr., ed.

How to Read Exodus

Tremper Longman III

Biblical Prophets and Contemporary Environmental Ethics

Hilary Marlow

Take and read

May 04, 2010 selected by Kathleen M. O'Connor
Anderson looks at the interpretive problems created when biblical laws concerning women, the poor and strangers are accepted literally among Protestant Christians.
Books

Yet I Loved Jacob: Reclaiming the Biblical Concept of Election

Joel Kaminsky

Touching the Altar: The Old Testament for Christian Worship

Carol M. Bechtel, ed.

Scripture, Culture, and Agriculture: An Agrarian Reading of the Bible

Ellen F. Davis

Mothers of Promise: Women in the Book of Genesis

Tammi J. Schneider

Old Testament Prophets for Today

Carolyn J. Sharp

Challenging Prophetic Metaphor: Theology and Ideology in the Prophets

Julia M. O'Brien

Divine Presence amid Violence: Contextualizing the Book of Joshua

Walter Brueggemann

What Did the Ancient Israelites Eat? Diet in Biblical Times

Nathan MacDonald

Daughters of Miriam: Women Prophets in Ancient Israel

Wilda C. Gafney

Disability in the Hebrew Bible: Interpreting Mental and Physical Differences

Saul M. Olyan

Take and read

May 05, 2009 selected by Kathleen M. O'Connor
The biblical theme of divine election, according to Kaminsky, is a seminal idea basic to Judaism and Christianity without which neither tradition can flourish. Christians celebrate election as evidence of divine inscrutability, while Jews supplement it midrashically.
Books

Liberating Jonah: Forming an Ethics of Reconciliation

Miguel A. De La Torre

Jonah, Jesus, and Other Good Coyotes: Speaking Peace to Power in the Bible

Daniel L. Smith-Christopher

Jonah, Jesus, and Other Good Coyotes: Speaking Peace to Power in the Bible

Daniel L. Smith-Christopher

Abraham: Trials of Family and Faith

Terence E. Fretheim

Gender, Power, and Persuasion: The Genesis Narratives and Contemporary Portraits

Mignon R. Jacobs

Israel and the Nations: A Mission Theology of the Old Testament

James Chukwuma Okoye

Torah Through Time: Understanding Bible Commentary from the Rabbinic Period to Modern Times

Shai Cherry

Defending God: Biblical Responses to the Problem of Evil

James L. Crenshaw

The Book of Psalms: A Translation with Commentary

Robert Alter

Take and read

May 06, 2008 selected by Kathleen M. O'Connor
De La Torre brings new light to the book of Jonah when he sets it in conversation with the lives of marginalized peoples. The United States takes the role of Nineveh, capital of the Assyrian empire, in an argument that hopes for readers’ conversion to God’s revelation among the disenfranchised.
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