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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...

of God's work. We hope that through this theological interpretation of the Old Testament, readers will emerge with a sense that God's work, attested so richly in the writings of ancient Israel, will be recognized as in continuity with the work of God in our own world. Thus, such study of the witness of ancient Israel is not an end in itself, but instead enables the Old Testament as scripture of the church to serve as a resource that empowers us as God's people for our own faithful response to the