decades would show very clearly that even its practitioners are not agreed as to what it is. The whole question of the possibility of Biblical Theology has exercised many minds in recent years, although a substantial number of scholars remains convinced that such an enterprise is appropriate.28 Basic to all theology is the doctrine of God and the material for this in the Book of Psalms, as we have seen already, is extremely extensive. There is much here, as, of course, in the remainder of the Old