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In this important work, Child’s thesis is that a canonical approach to the scriptures of the Old Testament opens up new possibilities for exploring the theological dimensions of the biblical text. Rather than seeking the sources, redactors, or communities “behind” the text at the expense of the text itself, the canonical approach seeks to understand the theological message of the Old Testament as...

Testament as if he were living before the coming of Christ is an historical anachronism which also fails to take seriously the literature’s present function within the Christian Bible for a practising community of faith. Similar theological objections obtain for the frequent proposal that Christians read the Old Testament as Jews and only the New Testament as Christians, which of course destroys the theological meaning of the canonical terminology of the Old Testament within the Christian Bible.
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