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The Face of Old Testament Studies: A Survey of Contemporary Approaches is unavailable, but you can change that!

The developments in Old Testament studies during the past 25 years have created a mountain of scholarly data that challenges even the best-read researcher. From textual criticism to literary approaches, from historiography to social science, each discipline possesses unique patterns of development, scholarly personalities, and methodologies. The Face of Old Testament Studies tackles the challenge...

V. Philips Long Among the various features on the face of Old Testament studies, the historiography of the Old Testament is one of the most widely discussed but least well defined. Not only do the differing personalities and perspectives of various scholars prompt them to trace the contours of this feature in sometimes radically different ways, but there is ambiguity even as to what constitutes the proper object of study. Consider, for instance, the assigned
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