Church, always committed to preparing ministers to proclaim the whole counsel of God. Dr. Kline’s forte was painting a forest without missing the trees. For example, in this work he points out small things in the text, like Hebrew puns on names that highlight the details of the narrative, but he also offers sweeping vistas—more than that, broader categories for interpreting specific details. First, there is the relationship of canon and covenant, which he had developed especially in Treaty of the