In this brief volume the major trends in contemporary Old Testament scholarship are clearly set forth and analyzed with rare precision. Professor Hasel goes on to propose seven suggestive criteria that determine what he would call a multiplex approach to Old Testament theology, the method which he feels does the most justice to all the data. - Abbreviations, Preface, Introduction, 1. Beginnings and development of OT theology, 2. The question of methodology, 3. The question of history, history of tradition, and salvation history, 4. The center of the OT and OT theology, 5. The relationship between the testaments, 6. Basic proposals for doing OT theology, Selected bibliography, Index of authors, Index of subjects