Seibert’s proposal amounts to a form of postmodern deconstructionism in which alternative readings of the Old Testament are developed in order to correct its violent and “unethical” passages. “Old Testament texts,” he asserts, “especially those that are morally questionable, need to be ethically critiqued rather than uncritically approved. We must weigh and evaluate the claims such texts make in order to determine whether they should be accepted or rejected.”