Canon and Theology : Overtures to an Old Testament Theology Book

	Foreword
	Translator's Note
	Abbreviations
1	Old Testament Theology: Some Ideas for a New Approach	1
2	Rabbinic Exegesis and the Modern Christian Bible Scholar	17
3	Between Historical Criticism and Holistic Interpretation: New Trends in Old Testament Exegesis	25
4	Toward a Common Jewish-Christian Reading of the Hebrew Bible	31
5	The Importance of the Canon for a Theology of the Old Testament	46
6	The Place of Prophecy in a Theology of the Old Testament	57
7	The Image of Postexilic Israel in German Old Testament Scholarship from Wellhausen to von Rad	66
8	Christological Interpretation as a Way of "Salvaging" the Old Testament? Wilhelm Vischer and Gerhard von Rad	76
9	"Where Were You When I Laid the Foundation of the Earth?" Creation and Salvation History	92
10	Revelation and History: Particularism and Universalism in Israel's View of Revelation	114
11	"Covenant" as a Structuring Concept in Genesis and Exodus	125
12	The Birth of the Deliverer: "The Childhood of Samuel" Story in Its Literary Framework	135
13	The Composition of the Book of Isaiah	146
14	Isaiah 6 in the Framework of the Composition of the Book	170
15	Isaiah 56:1 as a Key to the Formation of the Book of Isaiah	181
16	Ezekiel 20 and 36:16ff. in the Framework of the Composition of the Book	190
17	What Is New in the New Covenant?	196
18	Forty Years On: Four Decades of Old Testament Scholarship as I Have Experienced Them in Heidelberg and Elsewhere	207
	Acknowledgments	221
	Index of Biblical References	225
	Index of Names	233