The concept of biblical theology : an Old Testament perspective / James Barr.

Definitions: the many faces of biblical theology -- The origins of modern Old Testament theology -- A typology of Old Testament theologies -- A wider spectrum -- Difference from doctrinal theology -- Difference from non-theological study -- Evolution and anti-evolutionism -- Difference from history of religion -- Difference in the sizes of complexes -- Difference in the way of thinking: philosophy and natural theology -- Connections with the New Testament -- Evaluation, commitment, objectivity -- Historical theology--a possible analogy? -- Opposition to biblical theology -- 'Real' theology and biblical theology -- 'Christianizing' of the Old Testament? -- Judaism after biblical times -- Jewish biblical theology? -- Some theologies of the 1970s -- An overview of the older tradition -- Story and biblical theology -- Gese and the unity of biblical theology -- The canonical approach: first stage -- Childs' theologies -- Other canonical possibilities -- Some recent theologies -- Natural theology within biblical theology -- Oeming -- Mildenberger -- Raisanen -- Brueggemann -- Apocryphal and other non-canonical books -- The distribution of resources and pan-biblical theology -- David Brown.

In this tour de force, a premier Old Testament Scholar provides the reader with a grand overview of biblical theology: tracing the developments, critiquing the major contributions (e.g., Gese, Childs, Brueggemann), and providing his own provocative theological implications of the various constructions. In his usual bold manner, he examines the Christian, Jewish, and Islamic contexts of biblical theology and their implications for our reading of both testaments in the modern world. Some of the key issues Bar addresses are typologies for doing biblical theology and Old Testament theology, the Apocryhpha and Pseudepigrapha, the relationship between the Old Testament and the New Testament, the history of religions versus theological approaches, and the Biblical Theology Movement.

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