and historians of theology, as it is to understand the underlying ways of thinking, the ways in which thought flows and confronts the real world. These studies, while often quite stimulating, are generally unacceptable in the way they pose the problem. They should be discussed, however, since their basic principles are very common. The school of thought which best represents this trend is the so-called ‘Biblical Theology’ school. It attempts to grasp the structure of Hebrew thought in the very structure