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A Theological Introduction to the Old Testament: 2nd Edition is unavailable, but you can change that!

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...

and strengthen me only this once, O God, so that with this one act of revenge I may pay back the Philistines for my two eyes" (16:28). Samson performs his show of strength. It is, however, a sorry business, for he dies with his enemies. The arrangement of the narrative, culminating with Samson and then going on to the sordidness of chapters 17–21, suggests that zeal for Yahweh has, by this time, been so compromised and accommodated that the capacity of the judges to cope with the threats posed to Israel
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