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no word less deconstructible than hope: Walter Brueggemann, Ichabod Toward Home. The Journey of Gods Glory

September 7, 2007 by David Baer

This is not Walter Brueggemann’s best book. Still, it is the measure of this man’s perceptive insight that a lecture series at Princeton Theological Seminary with off-the-cuff roughnessess still evident can make for the kind of compelling reading that merely fine writers are fortunate to achieve once or twice in a career. Continue Reading »

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Courage: Patrick M. Lencioni, The Five Temptations of a CEO. A Leadership Fable

September 7, 2007 by David Baer

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If the proof is in the pudding, the value of this recipe is that I have faced three concrete ‘CEO moments’ since finishing Lencioni’s fable two days ago that have proven to be the turf for implementation of his well-told counsel to CEOs who live or die by clarity and courage. Continue Reading »

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keep it simple: Patrick M. Lencioni, The Four Obsessions of an Extraordinary Executive. A Leadership Fable

September 7, 2007 by David Baer

Patrick Lencioni writes stories. Lots of them.

He calls them `fables’. `Leadership fables’, to be precise. It’s a growing genre in business publications, perhaps a sign that such writers and their editors and marketers have caught on to the power of narrative to make a point that often comes across as dry and abstract when it’s treated, well, dryly and abstractly. Continue Reading »

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no other option: fix the problem: Patrick M. Lencioni, The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, A Leadership Fable

September 7, 2007 by David Baer

Following his success with The Four Obsessions of an Extraordinary Executive and the The Five Temptations of a CEO, management consultant Pat Lencioni turns his observant eye to the team and its dynamic interrelationship. The results are outstanding. Continue Reading »

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Begin *here*!: Bernard Lewis, The Crisis of Islam. Holy War and Unholy Terror

September 7, 2007 by David Baer

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A first reader of this renowned Princeton Arabist might puzzle for a moment over whether he is a sympathist or an adversary of Arabs, Islam, and the Muslims. He is both. Continue Reading »

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a contrarian must read for biblical scholars who assume too much: Jon D. Levenson, The Hebrew Bible, the Old Testament, and Historical Criticism. Jews and Christians in Biblical Studies

September 7, 2007 by David Baer

These six collected essays from one of biblical scholarship’s leading thoughtful curmudgeons prove beyond doubt that unexamined assumptions corrode the core of the enterprise of biblical scholarship in the secular academy. That they come from the pen of a Jewish scholar teaching at one of liberal Protestantism’s foremost shrines (Harvard Divinity School) is only the first irony that Levenson explores here with contrarian zeal. Readers who believe in the craft—whether naively or upon reflection—will find Levenson’s articles an unsettling and necessary read. Continue Reading »

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possibly Brueggemann’s best work: Walter Brueggemann, The Land. Place As Gift, Promise, and Challenge in Biblical Faith (Overtures to Biblical Theology)

September 7, 2007 by David Baer

Though this may be the best of Walter Brueggemann’s many books, it is not a work for the faint of heart. Brueggemann’s prose sometimes seems to overtake his meaning. One wonders at times-Brueggemann himself might say-whether there is a surfeit of meaning in this text that eludes immediate penetration, or simply a surplus of words. Continue Reading »

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memory and hope: Michael Fishbane, Biblical Text and Texture. A Literary Reading of Selected Texts

September 7, 2007 by David Baer

Because it stands in the shadow of Fishbane’s monumental Biblical Interpretation in Ancient Israel, this little book is not so well known twenty-five years after its publication. That’s a pity, for it exhibits the art of Fishbane’s literarily sensitive readings of key biblical texts to a readership that will not labor through the massive methodological and typological argument of the larger work. If Biblical Interpretation is a four-movement symphony for full orchestra and a price tag to match, Text and Texture is a savory lunchtime string trio in the sun, offered gratis to passersby.

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an odd object, perhaps, but a beautiful one: Janos Starker, The World of Music According to Starker

September 7, 2007 by David Baer

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In terms of quality of writing, the famous cellist might have stuck to his principal art rather than venturing into autobiography. But then we would be without this odd little gem of self-reflection. That would be a pity. Continue Reading »

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written with a light touch: Richard L. Sine, Stamp Collecting for Dummies

September 7, 2007 by David Baer

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This volume in the ‘Dummies’ series is written with a humorous light touch that makes it especially attractive to the Dummy who knows he is one and doesn’t need to be reminded that he is one by being frog-marched through impenetrable jargon. In addition, Richard Sine or his editor have had the foresight to break the topics he treats up into very small sections and subsections. Continue Reading »

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