Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: SECTION VI. BIBLICAL THEOLOGY OF THE OLD TESTAMENT. § I —16. INTRODUCTION. § 1—4. Definition and Limits of Old Testament Theology. § 1. Summary of the Introduction. The Introduction has for its aim 1. To define the Theology of the Old Testament, and its relation to the cognate branches of Biblical Science ; 2. To present the conception of the Old Testament religion presupposed in our exhibition of the subject, together with the scientific standpoint of Old Testament Theology thereby given; 3. To present a brief history of this branch of theology; 4. To discuss the method of Old Testament Theology, and present its divisions. § 2. Definition of Old Testament Theology. Biblical Theology of the Old Testament has for its task the historical exhibition of the religion contained in the canonical books of the Old Testament, according to its progressive development and the variety of the forms in which it appears. It cannot, therefore, limit itself to the directly didactic matter in the Old Testament, but must also embrace the chief features of the history of the divine kingdom in the Old Testament. It has to handle as such what is only in germ, and to show how the Old Testament, in the narrowness and unfinishedstate which characterizes in many parts its doctrinal contents, points from itself to something higher. Taking all things into cons1deration, the best work in th1s department Is the well-known treatise of Gustav Frledrlch Oehler, Theologie des Alien Testamentes (2 Bde. Tueblngen, 1873, 1874. Second ed1t1on, rev1sed by Theodore Oehler, 1882). An Engl1sh translation of the first edition appeared in Ed1nburgh in two volumes, (1874,1875), and an American Ed1t1on, rev1sed by George E. Day, incorporat1ng the add1t1ons of the second German edition, was publis...