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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...

54:9-10). Yet, this is true of Genesis texts generally (e.g., Gen 22), so it is difficult to assess what role these chapters may have played in Israel's reflections. New Testament texts, especially Paul's references to Gen 3 and the "fall" (e.g., Rom 5:12-21), are perhaps most responsible for the attention given these chapters in Christian circles. These Pauline texts have been extended by elaborate churchly reflections about creation, sin and evil, the nature of the human, and the relationship between God
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