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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...

misunderstood “rhetorical criticism,” or, as in Childs’s case again, “canonical criticism,” a phrase that implies a particular agenda. As a result of such a conundrum in terminology, the present work attempts to avoid misleading terms and, by default perhaps, to deal only with text criticism on the one hand and “everything else” on the other. Authors must always seek to justify their works. Throughout the centuries OT introductions have
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