The Old Testament and God / Craig G. Bartholomew. [print]

Includes bibliographies and index.

PART 1: what should we do with the Old Testament? Old Testament origins

PART 2: tools for the task. Knowledge: towards a critical realist paradigm -- Narrative, literature, reading and world view -- History in/and the Old Testament and the ancient Near East -- Theology, authority and the Old Testament

PART 3: the world views of the ancient Near East. Ancient Near Eastern world views -- God and the gods of the ancient Near East

PART 4: the God who approaches. God in/and the Old Testament: the living God.

Craig Bartholomew's The Old Testament and God is the first volume in his ambitious four-volume project, which seeks to explore the question of God and what happens to Old Testament studies if we take God and his action in the world seriously. Toward this end, he proposes a post-critical paradigm shift that recenters study around God. The intent is to do for Old Testament studies what N. T. Wright's Christian Origins and the Question of God series has done for New Testament studies.

Bartholomew proposes a much-needed holistic, narrative approach, showing how the Old Testament functions as Christian Scripture. In so doing, he integrates historical, literary, and theological methods as well as a critical realist framework. Following a rigorous analysis of how we should read the Old Testament, he goes on to examine and explain the various tools available to the interpreter. He then applies worldview analysis to both Israel and the surrounding nations of the ancient Near East. The volume concludes with a fresh exegetical exploration of YHWH, the living and active God of the Old Testament. Subsequent volumes will include Moses and the Victory of Yahweh, The Old Testament and the People of God, and The Death and Return of the Son. AMAZON

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