misunderstood “rhetorical criticism,” or, as in Childs’s case again, “canonical criticism,” a phrase that implies a particular agenda. As a result of such a conundrum in terminology, the present work attempts to avoid misleading terms and, by default perhaps, to deal only with text criticism on the one hand and “everything else” on the other. Authors must always seek to justify their works. Throughout the centuries OT introductions have
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