in the last century was the proliferation of articles, monographs, and commentaries integrating the results of the broader studies of the ancient Near East and the Old Testament text. The comparison of a commentary of the early nineteenth century on any book of the Old Testament with its mid-twentieth-century counterpart will reveal the differences. Early Christian, medieval, and reformational commentaries were set aside in favor of the insights from philosophy, philology, comparative religion, archaeology,
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