Third, the OT offers, by teaching and example, practical principles of belief and behavior for contemporary times. The great stories of creation, the flood, and Babel; the intriguing and entertaining vignettes about the Hebrew patriarchs; the mighty acts of Yahweh in exodus deliverance and in the conquest of Canaan—all reveal a God and providential purpose that have much to do with people caught up in the perils and perplexities of a world not much different from that of OT times. Who He was and