A Theological Introduction to the Old Testament
2nd Edition
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A Theological Introduction to the Old Testament
A Theological Introduction to the Old Testament by Bruce Birch;Terence Fretheim;Walter Brueggemann was published by Abingdon Press in November 2005 and is our 9669th best seller. The ISBN for A Theological Introduction to the Old Testament is 9780687066766.
This book has become a standard text in seminary and university classrooms. The purpose of this second edition is to help readers come to a critically informed understanding of the Old Testament as the church's scripture. This book introduces the Old Testament both as a witness of ancient Israel and as a witness to the church and synagogue through the generations of those who have passed these texts on as scripture.
The authors of this volume share a commitment to the interpretation of the Old Testament as a central resource for the life of the church today. At the same time, they introduce the Old Testament witness in a manner that honors the importance of biblical scholarship in helping students engage the variety of theological voices within the Old Testament.
This second edition gives special attention to deepening and broadening theological interpretations by including, for example, issues related to gender, race, and class. It also includes more detailed maps and charts for student use.
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Customer Reviews
Splendid way of learning to appreciate the OT historicall and theologically - Holger Szesnat, Cambridge
The four authors deliver what many will long for: an introduction to the Old Testament that both takes the historical nature of the texts seriously, but nevertheless treats them as texts that are theologically relevant here and now. It will take a while to get used to, and the writing style is not easy, so it is not a classic introductory textbook in that sense. A student new to OT studies should also consult a more classically oriented 'introduction' to the OT or Hebrew Bible alongside this book, if only because one sometimes needs an 'introduction to the books' of the OT as well as this more historically-thematically oriented work. But: it is great stuff, and it addresses real theological issues head-on, rather than confronting students with 'bare history' without a clue what to do with it.
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