This final book published in the series collects together for the first time in English translation a selection of essays on central themes and texts in Old Testament criticism and exegesis by Rudolf Smend, one of the world's most eminent senior scholars in the field. The essays are marked by penetrating exegetical and critical insight as well as by an unrivalled knowledge of the history of Old Testament scholarship. Their publication will serve to make the range and vitality of Smend's work more widely known to English-speaking readers.