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Article: Biblical Theology: Is It Good for the Jews?
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- June 22, 2000
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OUR CENTURY HAS SEEN THE RISE AND FALL AND APPARENT rebirth of Biblical theology as a movement and as a discipline. After the heady days of Barth, von Rad, and Yehezkel Kaufman, all of whom tried to crystallize the teaching of the Hebrew Bible, the whole project was cast in doubt by its enemies and detractors who preferred the old critical-historical method or a newer, largely literary approach. Now, finally, the appearance of two massive volumes--James Barr, The Concept of Biblical Theology (Fortress, 1999) and Walter Brueggemann, Theology of the Old Testament (Fortress, 1997) (and a number of others in Germany, the U.K. and even in Israel)--seems to suggest that a ...