THE PRICE OF THE Deuteronomic tradition’s influence on the Prophetic and Psalmic traditions is that the character of the biblical God becomes more about covenant than creation in terms of the human-divine relationship, more about Sanction than History in terms of covenant, and more about curses than blessings in terms of Sanction. For my titular problem, How to Read the Bible and Still Be a Christian, both the Prophetic and Psalmic traditions are extremely ambiguous on the character of God. Indeed, there is almost a rhythm of assertion-and-subversion within and across each tradition. On the
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