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Understanding Old Testament Theology: Mapping the Terrain of Recent Approaches is unavailable, but you can change that!

Over the past century the field of Old Testament studies has seen an explosion of theologies of the Old Testament, a trend that has only intensified in the past ten or twenty years. This proliferation of literature has made it difficult for students, pastors, laity—and even scholars—to keep up with. In Understanding Old Testament Theology, biblical theology experts Brittany Kim and Charlie Trimm...

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’
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