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In answer to the various approaches to the study of Old Testament theology, Hasel provides a comprehensive survey of the pertinent literature of Protestant, Roman Catholic, and Jewish scholars, and in doing so casts fresh light on this important subject. Based on his critical analysis of past and current methods, Hasel offers a new approach for doing Old Testament theology, a methodology that...

depends on the New Criticism,112 though Childs himself insists that he has no such conscious dependence.113 Against the interpretation and association of his “canonical approach” as a part of the New Criticism or the like, Childs emphatically maintains that this “is a misunderstanding”114 on the part of John Barton. For Childs, in contrast to a literary reading of the Bible, “the initial point to be made is that the canonical approach to Old Testament theology is unequivocal in asserting that the
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