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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...

of their life as God’s people prompts them to respond with very concrete actions by which they rearrange specific elements of how they live in the world, even leading them to new economic practices. This story-telling example from Nehemiah 9–10 suggests that telling the OT story of God and God’s people may likewise prompt those of us who hear it today to respond by realigning our lives, even in ways that change how we conduct aspects of our social relationships and money practices. Put more generally,
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