This is a hightly readable little book. While scholarly in its approach, it does not scare off the causal reader with an overabundance of footnotes, cross-references and untranslated original langu…
This book points the way to a different reading of Scripture, one that raises fresh questions for the contemporary reader: power, liberation, justice and preeminently, connectedness. The author's r…
Here is a book in which Christians searching for the secrets of the deeper life will find immeasurabl treasure a rich and vital message for today's Christian concerned wth living a Christian life i…
A valuable collection of notes on the first five books of the Bible. Each section begins with a helpful introduction followed by a chapter-by-chapter study of the text. This godly scholar of a byg…
In this introduction to the first five books of the Old Testament, Victor Hamilton moves chapter by chapter--rather than verse by verse--through the Pentateuch, examining the content, structure, an…
In this volume, Terence E. Fretheim seeks to introduce the Pentateuch to modern readers, stressing its continuing capacity to speak a word of--or about--God. The two chapters of Part One provide an…
Whereas the world at large treats Judaism as the religion of the Old Testament, "the fact is otherwise. Judaism inherits and make the Hebrew Scripture its own, just as does Christianity. And just a…
This book makes sense of the current muddle in Pentateuchal studies by introducing students to the contests and themes of the first five books of the Bible. Boldly analyzing the cutting edge of cur…
This book offers the best current handling of Pentateuchal traditions as they operated in the past and as they help the church now. Hans Walter Wolff sees Israel's faith tradition as a continuous k…
How do the grand stories of Israel and her heroes, as well as the many seemingly mundane incidents found in these narrative stories, help guide today's readers in their daily behavior? Renowned sc…