Anthropology of the Old Testament

Wolff's book is of first-rate importance to us for several reasons. It is a model of method for all of us who will submit ourselves to the text. There are few books which really break new ground. THis is one of them because 'anthropology' is where much ministry and study must work...In a timeof renewed interest in Scripture, this book affirms that such interest is not for faith and piety in a separate sphere, but it belongs precisely at the interface with other intellectual disciplines in the university over the questions that have come from the ashes of technical reason. This is a rich, informative and stimulating work, reflectin in its form and content the complexity of its subject matter. The diversity and concreteness of individual texts are well preserved, with admirable attention to contexts and avoidance of harmonizing syntheses. Comprehensive design and multiple perspectives move the work beyond earlier, more limited, studies of a predominantly linguistic and psychological nature...Wolff has succeeded in presenting more fully and more clearly than any previous scholar the rich and varied testimony of the OT concerning the meaning of man. Careful exegesis and sensitive theological interpretation inform the work throughout.