The biblical texts are a canonical bundle of overlapping testimonies from radically different contexts to the one history of God with humanity which culminates in Christ’s death and resurrection. The Scriptures come to us in the form of plural traditions. The texts and the underlying “story of the history” which unites them (see Introduction) do not offer a coherent tradition. Instead, they demand a series of interrelated basic commitments—beliefs and practices. These commitments can be developed into traditions. But such traditions are always secondary phenomena, in need of being interrogated
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