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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...

So it matters that the Torah relates the historical events on which Israel’s faith is based. This statement is true in varying ways and to varying degrees in connection with the different questions that I have suggested that the Torah would have answered for the Israelites. In these connections, they would have an interest in looking at the Torah historically. But it is fine if the Torah is more like a movie based on fact than like a totally factual documentary,
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