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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