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I have mainly depended on Hays and Prussner, OT Theology, 271-3.
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S.J. Samartha, The search for New Hermeneutics in Asian Christian Theology
(Bangalore: BTESSC, 1987), 50.
9. If the canon is taken as the final boundary for doing biblical theology, is not a lost from
the inability to draw upon the insights and conclusions of the history of religion? One
cannot include either the prehistory of the traditions or their setting in a larger universe of
meaning.
10. John L. Mckenzie calls Childs works as how-to-do-it books. For him the OT has its
own entity. So there cannot be a biblical theology, but only theology of the OT and
theology of the NT. So there is no crisis biblical theology (referring Childs title:
Biblical theology in Crisis).3
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John L. Mckenzie, Old Testament Theology, 318-19.