Walter Brueggemann es catedrático de Antiguo Testamento en el Seminario Teológico Columbia de Decatur (Georgia). Entre sus obras destacan: Hopeful Imagination: Prophetic Voices in Exile (1986), Spirituality of the Psalms (2001), The Book That Breathes New Life: Scriptural Authority and Biblical Theology (2004) y The Word That Redescribes the World: The Bible and Discipleship (2006).