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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...

reading of the text. The prime example of this trend is G. Ernest Wright’s God Who Acts, published in 1952.18 Despite its vibrancy, the biblical theology movement proved to be short-lived. One of the primary critiques concerned historicity, as many scholars became disillusioned with biblical archaeology and more skeptical of the historicity of the biblical narrative. As more of the biblical text was viewed as nonhistorical, it became increasingly difficult to base an Old Testament theology on an
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