Testament witness to God: “election and covenant, rejection and restoration, Heilsgeschichte, creation, and providence, the way of life and the way of death”.44 He went on to say that “if all the copies of the Old Testament were lost or destroyed, any scholar who could remember the text of the Psalms would have at his disposal the essential materials for an Old Testament theology; for the Psalter is, in a sense, the first of all Old Testament theologies”45—not systematized, but singable. And when