the covenants, or it provides a very succinct table of contents of the Bible. But “testament,” or “covenant,” denotes more than a prominent element in the contents of the Bible. The documents which combine to form the Bible are in their very nature—a legal sort of nature, it turns out—covenantal. In short, the Bible is the old and the new covenants. We are now in a position to apply what we have earlier concluded concerning biblical canonicity in its treaty origins to the whole of the Old Testament