The stimulation for this was von Rad’s rejection of a conceptual unity of the OT. Let us raise a question at this point. Is there a single theme or concept that can serve as the center of the OT in order to unify the diversified materials and to organize them into a coherent structure of OT theology? A clearly affirmative answer with detailed argumentation is provided by W. C. Kaiser, Jr. He believes that there is “an inductively derived theme, key, or organizing pattern which the successive writers