the world vis-à-vis the other peoples of the world and its raison d’être and mission in the world.92 Von Rad’s understanding of Old Testament theology is that it is an ongoing “traditioning” process in which each subsequent generation in Israel retells the narrative recital, but retells it with the incorporation of new materials and with a recasting, so that the ancient recital may be kept pertinent to new circumstance and new crisis.93 The completed form of the tradition is then the accumulation