This booklet began life during sabbatical leave in the spring term of 1992 when I was teaching Old Testament and Hebrew at The Queen’s College in Birmingham. I am grateful to the College Council for the opportunity of writing made available in that sabbatical. I am grateful too for the persistent encouragement of friends in the Cornwall District of the Methodist Church and students on a variety of courses who kept asking for “the next one” and so pressed me to prepare it for publication. Biblical quotations which are not otherwise attributed are from the New Revised Standard Version, copyright 1989, Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America, published by Oxford University Press

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