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The World and the Word is a fresh introduction to the Old Testament driven largely by the fact that so much Christian preaching and teaching today increasingly ignores what is eighty percent of the Bible. Authors Eugene Merrill, Mark Rooker, and Michael Grisanti work through the world and text of the Old Testament always making three major points: • The Old Testament is a rich source of...

of the absence of indisputable biblical, archaeological, and historical benchmarks.3 The brief and oblique remarks about the world of prepatriarchal times (before 2000 BC) prove historically reliable when testable, but the biblical record makes no attempt to provide a sustained account of human history on even a limited scale. It is necessary, therefore, to turn to extrabiblical sources to secure the data with which to attempt a comprehensive reconstruction. Scholars commonly refer to ancient eras
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