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An Introduction to the Old Testament: Exploring Text, Approaches and Issues is unavailable, but you can change that!

This introduction to the Old Testament is written to cover all key components of most OT courses and also to help students to think for themselves about key issues of interpretation. Built upon John Goldingay’s decades of studying and teaching the Old Testament, this introduction is unusual in that it sets out background information, notes interpretative possibilities, raises questions and...

In 108 we considered the nature of the great “historical” narratives that provide the framework for the OT as a whole. Their story needs to be basically factual because its message is about something that happened. If it didn’t happen, there is no gospel. We have noted that these inspired narratives can incorporate imaginative and other nonfactual elements, but they still have a factual base. Yet God also inspired fictional stories such as Jesus’
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