Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Retrospect I: from the beginning to the end of a generative period -- Retrospect 2: the contemporary situation -- pt. 1. Israel's core testimony. Israel's practice of testimony -- Testimony in verbal sentences -- Adjectives: Yahweh with characteristic markings -- Nouns: Yahweh as constant -- Yahweh fully uttered -- pt. 2. Israel's countertestimony. Cross-examining Israel's core testimony -- The hiddenness of Yahweh -- Ambiguity and the character of Yahweh -- Yahweh and negativity -- Maintaining the tension -- pt. 3. Israel's unsolicited testimony. Israel's unsolicited testimony -- Israel as Yahweh's partner -- he human person as Yahweh's partner -- The nations as Yahweh's partner -- Creation as Yahweh's partner -- The drama of partnership with Yahweh -- pt. 4. Israel's embodied testimony. Mediating the presence of Yahweh -- The Torah as mediator -- The king as mediator -- The prophet as mediator -- The cult as mediator -- Modes of mediation and life with Yahweh -- pt. 5. Prospects for theological interpretation. Interpretation in a pluralistic context -- The constitutive power of Israel's testimony -- Some pervasive issues -- Moving toward true speech.