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An Old Testament Theology: An Exegetical, Canonical, and Thematic Approach is unavailable, but you can change that!

The Old Testament is more than a religious history of the nation of Israel. It is more than a portrait gallery of heroes of the faith. It is even more than a theological and prophetic backdrop to the New Testament. Beyond these, the Old Testament is inspired revelation of the very nature, character, and works of God. As renowned Old Testament scholar Bruce Waltke writes in the preface of this...

A third “history” in many academic theologies of the Old Testament is the so-called historical Israel. The Enlightenment, whose epistemology is based on reason, not revelation, gave rise to “historical criticism.” The roots of historical criticism, as expostulated by Ernst Troeltsch, are skepticism, analogy, and coherence. By skepticism is meant reading the Bible as any other ancient myth. By analogy is meant testing the historical accuracy of the Bible
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