The Old Testament: canon, history, and literature
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Engaging and accessible to students from all backgrounds, this book is a comprehensive introduction to the Old Testament. It is designed to equip readers with the knowledge and skills needed to read, interpret, and benefit from the Old Testament/Hebrew Bible in their own context. Using scholarly consensus and current research with numerous examples, this book helps prepare students for further advanced courses related to exegesis, individual books, and special topics. It also provides a balanced approach to controversial areas in biblical scholarship such as violence, sexuality, and slavery. More importantly, this introduction understands the Old Testament as a resource for the human quest for meaning making it an essential tool for helping students appropriate this, often neglected, part of the Bible for their own faithful living. It includes at-a-glance sections to highlight matters of special interest- including material about important ancient Egyptian and west Asian documents; significant archaeological excavations; a demonstration of textual criticism; problematic translation issues such as Gen 1:1, Isa 7:14, or Job 19:25; special problems such as the chronology of the kings and the dating of the second fall of Jerusalem.
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Nelson, R. D. 1. (2019). The Old Testament: canon, history, and literature. Abingdon Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Nelson, Richard D. 1945-. 2019. The Old Testament: Canon, History, and Literature. Abingdon Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Nelson, Richard D. 1945-, The Old Testament: Canon, History, and Literature. Abingdon Press, 2019.
MLA Citation (style guide)Nelson, Richard D. 1945-. The Old Testament: Canon, History, and Literature. Abingdon Press, 2019.
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| 505 | 0 | 0 | |g Part I: |t Laying the groundwork -- |t Old Testament and Hebrew Bible as Scripture -- |t Geography, history, and religion -- |g Part II. |t Torah -- |t Investigating the Pentateuch -- |t Creation: Genesis 1-3 -- |t Origins: Genesis 4:1-11:9 -- |t Abraham and his descendants -- |t Exodus -- |t Leviticus and Numbers -- |t Deuteronomy -- |g Part III |t Former prophets -- |t Joshua -- |t Judges -- |t 1 and 2 Samuel -- |t Book of Kings and the Story of Solomon -- |t 1 and 2 Kings and the History of Israel and Judah -- |g Part IV: |t Latter prophets -- |t Prophets and prophecy -- |t Isaiah scroll -- |t Catastrophe and exile: Jeremiah and Ezekiel -- |t Prophets of social justice: Amos, Hosea, and Micah -- |t Judah in the Orbit of Assyria, Babylon, and Persia -- |g Part V: |t Writings -- |t Psalms -- |t Optimistic and pessimistic wisdom: Proverbs and Job -- |t Five scrolls -- |t Ezra-Nehemiah and 1 and 2 Chronicles -- |t Daniel -- |g Part VI: |t Apocryphal/Deuterocanonical books -- |t Spellbinding and Profound Wisdom -- |t 26: 1 and 2 Maccabees -- |g Chronology of Significant Events -- |g Vocabulary. |
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