theology brought in from the outside has receded into the background.9 This plural and almost inflationary use of the term theology has virtually supplanted the classical conception, along with the project of a theology of the Hebrew Bible in many places. Furthermore, a rising consciousness of the problem concerning the textual object, the Hebrew Bible, should also be pointed out. There is no such thing as the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. We have the Hebrew Bible of Judaism and different Old Testaments
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