The Forgotten Books of the Bible: Recovering the Five Scrolls for Today (Fortress Press, 2018)

You’re probably missing some of the most interesting books of the Bible.

While the books of Song of Songs, Ruth, Lamentations, Ecclesiastes, and Esther serve as festival scrolls in Jewish tradition, the Christian tradition has all but forgotten about them. This book explores what they might contribute to Christian faith, focusing on themes of sex and sexuality, immigration reform, trauma and protest, death anxiety, and resistance to ethnic nationalism.

Imagination, Ideology, and Inspiration: Echoes of Brueggemann in a New Generation (Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2015)

This volume collects the work of 14 of Walter Brueggemann’s students at Columbia Theological Seminary, exploring Brueggemann’s influence on the next generation of scholars.