Walter Brueggemann (1933-2025)Walter Brueggemann, born on March 11, 1933, died early in the morning on June 5, 2025.
A giant in the field of Old Testament scholarship, he outpaced all others in terms of his reach and scope. Brueggemann is often the only Old Testament scholar anyone knows by name, and this is no doubt due to his staggering literary output. A bibliography of his books runs to twenty pages and contains over 120 separate titles, over 40 of which appeared with Fortress Press. Most scholars, even prolific ones, aspire to three or four books in a career; Brueggemann published fourteen in his 90th and 91st years of age. It is not only the quantity that impresses; it is the quality. Several of these books changed and defined the field—though in Walter’s case, the field in question is actually plural, fields. He was one of a precious few who wrote easily and effectively for larger publics, especially Christian clergy and laypeople.
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