Abstract
This chapter examines in connection with Daniel two possibilities about the study of Old Testament theology. The first is that one way to conceive of the subject of Old Testament theology is as answering the questions Who is God? and Who are we? The author expresses the matter in this way through reading his colleague James McClendon's two volumes of Systematic Theology, Ethics and Doctrine . The second possibility is that Old Testament theology, indeed any kind of theology, should have narrative interpretation at its core. Psalms would be a good place to focus the study of Old Testament theology, in so far as the Psalter embodies the densest concentration of theological expression in the Bible; and in Daniel the densest concentration of theological expression comes in the psalm-like prayer. Yet it remains true that Daniel, and the Old Testament as a whole, is actually dominated by narrative. Keywords: Daniel; James McClendon; Old Testament theology; Psalms
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