In the Written Torah God had given Israel his word, but in the Oral Torah he had given Israel the authority to interpret his word.

But, as we shall see presently, in Scripture, in second-temple Jewish literature, and in Paul himself, not least in Paul's reading of Scripture, God's way ofputting the world right is precisely through his covenant with Israel. This is the theme that will emerge clearly in the exegesis in due course. God's single plan to put the world to rights is

before modernity, theology and biblical scholarship were the same thing.

The word Bible originally meant “book,” but the Hebrew Bible or the Christian Old Testament is not one book but many, an anthology of ancient Israelite and early Jewish religious writings. Different religious communities have different versions of this anthology, as well as different names for it. Jews and Protestant Christians have the same conten