On examination it is clear that they interweave references to the love of God with their discussions of other topics. But I find it astonishing that so many scholars can write so much about the Old Testament with so little formal recognition of the place of love in it. They do not put it in a place of major importance to suggest that it is a leading theme: when they select the major subject headings under which they will treat the theology of the Old Testament, they find that they can dispense with