Introduction to the Old Testament as Scripture (Biblia.com)

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This introduction attempts to offer a different model for the discipline from that currently represented. It seeks to describe the form and function of the Hebrew Bible in its role as sacred scripture for Israel. It argues the case that the biblical literature has not been correctly understood or interpreted because its role as religious literature has not been correctly assessed.

Thirdly, the usual historical critical Introduction has failed to relate the nature of the literature correctly to the Community which treasured it as scripture. It is constitutive of Israel’s history that the literature formed the identity of the religious Community which in turn shaped the literature. This fundamental dialectic which lies at the heart of the canonical process is lost when the critical Introduction assumes that a historically referential reading of the Old Testament is the key to

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