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About the book >.>.> It is equally clear however that one cannot at the end of the twentieth century simply reiterate and replicate those heretofore governing models of theological ex- position. Since Eichrodt’s publication in the 1930s and von Rad’s in the 1950s much has changed both in interpretive work and in interpretive context. That change moreover requires and permits an effort at a fresh and venturesome alter- native interpretation. Thus for example Old Testament theological interpretation at mid-century was able to appeal to and rely on the “assured results” of the critical consensus of scholarship. It is fair to say that much of the old critical consensus from which theological exposition confidently moved at mid-century is now unset- tled if not in disarray. A fresh theological exposition must work its way cautiously and provisionally in the midst of that enormous unsettlement. It is my judgment however that the unsettlement is not primarily a problem but is itself an impor- tant datum to be taken into account in fresh venturesome efforts at Old Testament theology. It belongs to the nature of Old Testament theological interpretation that we are not permitted to be so sure as we once thought we were about such crit- ical matters. This unsettlement is in part a result of our so-called postmodern epistemological situation. Underneath that reality however the unsettlement is a reflection of the nature of the Old Testament text itself and speaking theolog- ically of the unsettled Character who stands at the center of the text. Thus the unsettlement is not simply a cultural or epistemological one but in t end it is a theological one. That awareness now so poignantly available to us provides a context for interpretation at the end of the twentieth century that is very differ- ent from the context in which Eichrodt and von Rad determined the governing models of work through the twentieth century. (MP)