In this first installment of a projected four-volume series that seeks to do for the Old Testament what N. T. Wright did for the New, Bartholomew addresses a range of topics even more expansive than the book’s title suggests. Chiefly, he aims to describe two things: the historic uniqueness of the OT within the ANE and the ongoing power of its testimony to the living God. However, these agenda items are largely postponed to Parts 3 and 4 of the book. To get there, he begins to describe, in Part 1, the origins of the OT in connection with the land of Israel and other dimensions of the biblical text. Broadly speaking, OT interpretation is characterized as “a threefold cord” with strands made up of “the literary,” “the historical and factual,” and “the ideological (religious and political) or kerygmatic” (p. 61). Contemporary OT scholarship is found to be deficient in...
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