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Telling the Old Testament Story: God's Mission and God's People is unavailable, but you can change that!

While honoring the historical context and literary diversity of the Old Testament, Telling the Old Testament Story is a thematic reading that construes the OT as a complex but coherent narrative. Unlike standard, introductory textbooks that only cover basic background and interpretive issues for each Old Testament book, this introduction combines a thematic approach with careful exegetical...

On the surface, the exodus narrative is a deliverance story. But on the symbolic level, it’s a creation story. While describing the Israelites’ journey from Egypt to the water, Exodus 13:18 identifies a specific location, the “Reed Sea” (yam sûp).19 When the biblical storytellers offer their recounting of YHWH’s dramatic parting of the water in chapter 14, however, they repeatedly label the object of YHWH’s miraculous action simply as the “sea” (yam, see especially vv. 21-23, 26-29). There is a clear
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