This article is based on material contained in a thesis accepted for the degree of M.Litt. at the University of Durham.
2.
Walther Eichrodt, Theology of the Old Testament, Eng. tr. John Baker (SCM, I [1961], II [1967]). All further unspecified references in the text are to this work.
3.
Cf. H. Wheeler Robinson , Inspiration and Revelation in the Old Testament (OUP [1946], 43-47, 161-162).
4.
Cf. J.W. Rogerson , The Supernatural in the Old Testament (Lutterworth [1976]), 4-5, and 'The Old Testament View of Nature: Some Preliminary Questions' (in Instruction and Interpretation, E.J. Brill [1977], 74-77).