of the Bible. These essays oppose such trends. They seek to uncover the overarching theology of the Bible as it develops throughout the canon. The themes they treat are studied with an eye to their integration into the whole fabric of the Bible, their use and reuse by the Bible’s writers, and thus to their development across the canon. Each contributor was allowed to pursue the chosen theme across the Scriptures in the manner they deemed best, but they all pursued that theme in a way calculated to
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