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The God of the Old Testament: Encountering the Divine in Christian Scripture is unavailable, but you can change that!

Walter Moberly is a top Old Testament theologian known for his creative, accessible, and provocative writing. His Old Testament Theology has been well received. This book, written in a similar vein, combines biblical criticism with constructive theology and engages both Jewish and Christian interpretations. Moberly offers robust readings of six pivotal Old Testament passages that unpack the...

in the ark (a “Zion-Sabaoth theology,” according to which God is permanently present in the Jerusalem temple on Mount Zion) and a deuteronomistic critique of that notion in favor of understanding the ark solely as a receptacle of the verbal record of the covenant (a “Name theology,” with a restricted concept of divine presence in the temple). He explicitly says of 1 Sam. 4 that “this chapter … attacks not only Zion-Sabaoth theology but also the doctrine of Zion’s inviolability. In this regard the
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