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This book constructively explores the question: What effects should an interest in theology produce in the reading of Scripture? Since the onset of historical consciousness in biblical studies over two centuries ago, the work of biblical exegetes and systematic theologians have largely followed two paths. In this book, nine prominent scholars work to bridge the longstanding gap between biblical...

by revealing our past. We do not regard the written deposits of the OT as “someone else’s mail,” to allude to the evocative title of Paul van Buren’s fundamentally wrongheaded article.39 They are ours. And therefore we are not finally dependent upon a historical reconstruction of that history before we can truly inhabit it. At the heart of this sense of self-identification with Israel’s history lies the historical Jesus. We belong, because he belongs. The God whom he teaches us to call “Father” is
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