Loading…

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 what might be called "prescientific" reflection. Israelite theologians were interested in "how" the creation came to be, and not just questions of "who" and "why." Such "prescientific" knowledge is evident in God's use of the earth and the waters to mediate further creations (1:11, 20, 24), the classification of plants into certain kinds (1:11-12) and a comparable interest in animals (1:20-25), as well as the ordering of creative acts. The authors utilized whatever data was available about the
Buy this book at Logos.com