teaching of which they themselves were quite unaware. If, as I have already suggested, this concept of time simply did not exist for the prophets, it is perfectly possible to say that the event which they foretell is a final one even if we, with our different presuppositions, would describe it as still ‘within history.’ ”26 Thus von Rad is reticent to create sharp distinctions between “Jahweh’s action within history and his action at the end of it.”27 This debate reveals that once one has observed