For For students, scholars and pastors who want a full account of Old Testament belief; not for readers new to the Old Testament or wanting a short overview.
Should I read this?
For the general reader
2 of 5worth a look
For the researcher
5 of 5essential
Difficulty
4 of 5hard
The middle volume of his large Old Testament theology: what the Old Testament as a whole says about God, Israel and the world.
How it proceeds
Philosophic4 of 5
Scriptural5 of 5
Experiential1 of 5
Sociological2 of 5
Historical2 of 5
Independent intensities, 0–5 — what the work is made of, not how good it is.
The second volume of his three-volume Old Testament Theology, published by IVP Academic in 2006. Where the first volume, Israel's Gospel (2003), follows the Old Testament's narrative of God's acts, this one sets out what the Old Testament says about God, Israel, the world and humanity as a body of faith, drawing on the whole of the Hebrew Bible. It runs to almost nine hundred pages.
