"The task of exegetical interpretation and also of biblical theology is not to restate the meaning of the Old Testament texts in ways which would be appropriate and meaningful to the ancient Israelites-but to us. As did ...

Professor Douglas Knight introduces thirteen essays that offer a "systematic reflection on the consequences that traditio-historical research has for theology, especially for Old Testament theology."

"This paper will proceed as follows: it will establish a plausible translation for Isa. lxvi 3-4a, discuss a Mari letter, ARM II : 37, and allude to other Near Eastern documentation in order to focus on an unusual practice ...