mean anything from the historical-critical method applied to the Bible to a theological interpretation of Scripture that in practice appears to leave history out of the equation altogether.”1 In a similar vein, Benjamin Sommer claims that “the statement ‘I am interested in biblical theology’ or ‘I am writing an Old Testament theology’ just does not communicate anything about our intentions or methods in the way that other statements do, such as, ‘I am interested in source criticism of the Pentateuch’