text. Neither is concerned to reconstruct the history behind the text or to support the claims of the text by appeal to any other kind of foundation.50 In view of the problems encountered by the Biblical Theology movement, and even by von Rad, a biblical theology that does not rely on history is attractive. It is also a strength of the approach that it embraces the whole canon and does not attempt to identify a “center.” Nonetheless, problems remain.51 Here I shall mention only two, which are among
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