The Role of Historical Narrative in Biblical Thought:the Tendencies Underlying Old Testament Historiography

Abstract

Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA IN TRODUCTIO N a. Status of Current Scholarship It seems acceptable these days to view much in biblical scholarship in terms of dichotomies and tensions. In a recent JSOT article Walter Brueggemann noted a common &dquo;dialectic&dquo; in three recently published works on OT theology, the one half