seriousness then the revelation of God will be more or less misunderstood.55 Some may wonder why I have given such space to Preuss. After all, I do not imagine that a large number of the likely readers of this essay would be inclined to regard Preuss as a model in the first place. Yet Preuss is, I think, characteristic of an approach to OT/biblical theology which is shared by many who might disagree with the specifics of his analysis. First and foremost the task is to be depicted as a