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Part 1: Readings. From Imago to imagines: the image(s) of God in Genesis -- YHWH's poesie: the Gnadenformel, the Book of Exodus, and beyond -- Keep/observe/do--carefully--today! The rhetoric of repetition in Deuteronomy -- Slaves and rebels: inscription, identity, and time in the rhetoric of Deuteronomy -- The art of poetry in Psalm 137: movement, reticence, cursing -- Revisiting Elisha and the bears: can modern Christians read--that is, pray--the worst texts of the Old Testament? -- Part 2: Biblical Theology. And these three are one: a Trinitarian critique of Christological approaches to the Old Testament -- "Israel, my cChild": the ethics of a Biblical metaphor -- What would (or should) Old Testament theology look like if recent reconstructions of Israelite religion were true? -- The Old Testament and participation with God (and/in Christ?): (re-)reading the life of Moses with some help from Gregory of Nyssa -- Tolkien's orcs meet the Bible's Canaanites: the dynamics of reading well... or not (or, how to critique scripture and still call it scripture) -- Docetism, Käsemann, and Christology: can historical criticism help Christological orthodoxy (and other theology) after all? -- Part 3: Practice. Is God always anything? -- On pharaohs: Egyptian and otherwise -- Designated rReaders: Deuteronomy's portrait of the ideal king-or is it preacher? -- On priesting -- Four thoughts on preaching and teaching the Bible--mostly the Old Testament -- On not bifurcating: faith and scholarship in the life of a Bible professor