In this informative and keen look at contemporary trends in Old Testament theology, Perdue builds on his earlier volume "The Collapse of History" (1994). He investigates how a variety of perspectives and methodologies have impacted how the Old Testament is read in the twenty-first century including: literary criticism; rhetorical criticism, feminist, womanist, and mujerista theologies, liberation theology; Jewish theology; postmodernism; and postcolonialism.