I CAME LATE to Walter Brueggemann's scholarship and, more importantly, his witness to Scripture and the life of Christianity. It's one of the regrets of my life that I didn't read him from the 1970s instead of wasting so much time reading much of the philosophy, political literature and pretty worthless lit literature instead of reading him and others who wrote on religion.
I don't know any details other than that he was 92 and remarkably active up till at least recently. I did hear one interview-discussion with him a few years ago, when one of the interviewers asked him how he was he said, . . . . "I'm old." The interviewer pointed out that he, probably one of the greatest of Old Testament Scholars wasn't familiar enough with Scripture because there were lots of People in the Old Testament a lot older than he was, which got a good hearty laugh from him.
May he live with God in the Communion of Saints forever.
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