at the start of volume 2 he gives account of both the logic and the limitations of making a break where he does (I discuss both the break and the interior organization and rationale of the two volumes in some detail below). In volume 2 we have an account of the prophetic literature, and the entire volume is devoted to a sustained and trenchant evaluation of this canonical reality, hence the subtitle: “The Theology of Israel’s Prophetic Traditions.” Yet this description could be misleading, for the
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