Books Similar to N. T. Wright’s Christian Origins and the Question of God

I am looking for books similar to N. T. Wright’s Christian Origins and the Question of God in the vein of OT studies. Not so much of an OT theology or an OT introduction but the historical, literary, theological underpinnings of the OT as well as its basis for Christian studies today and analyzes the OT and its relationship to Israel. I have read How to Understand and Apply the Old Testament, Routledge, Robin. Old Testament Theology: A Thematic Approach, Hasel, Gerhard F., Old Testament Theology: Basic Issues in the Current Debate and other OT introductions.

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Rick Carmickle

The Old Testament and God, by Craig Bartholomew, is explicitly in the same methodology as NT Wright.

https://www.logos.com/product/244180/the-old-testament-and-god

Graham Criddle

Totally agree with Rick's comment

The Introduction starts:

This book is volume 1 in a four-volume series entitled Old Testament Origins and the Question of God. As such, the book lays the foundation for the series, attending to the relevant introductory issues and to the question of God in the Old Testament. The series is intentionally designed as something of a companion to N. T. Wright’s Christian Origins and the Question of God. Indeed, readers will note similarities between this volume and N. T. Wright’s The New Testament and the People of God.

The overarching shape of this book is clear:

• Part 1 seeks to answer the question ‘What should we do with the Old Testament?’
• Part 2 develops a range of tools for answering this question from a critical realist perspective.
• Part 3 examines the major world views of the Ancient Near East against which background we read the Old Testament.
• Part 4 brings all this to bear on the central character of the OT, YHWH, the God of Israel.

Of course, as this is a new series, we don't know when the next three books will be available!

I've started reading it today and found it both interesting and thought-stretching!

Jeremy Archer

https://www.logos.com/product/80705/dominion-and-dynasty-a-biblical-theology-of-the-hebrew-bible