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A Catholic Introduction to the Bible, Volume 1: The Old Testament is unavailable, but you can change that!

Although many Catholics are familiar with the four Gospels and other writings of the New Testament, for most, reading the Old Testament is like walking into a foreign land. Who wrote these forty-six books? When were they written? Why were they written? What are we to make of their laws, stories, histories, and prophecies? Should the Old Testament be read by itself or in light of the New...

On the one hand, the two books of Samuel were originally one composition and show signs of being designed as a single literary unit. On the other hand, they are also clearly a part of a much larger composition, tracing the history of Israel from creation to the destruction of Jerusalem and the Babylonian exile (Genesis–2 Kings). At the turn of the third century A.D., Origen records that for the Jews, these two books were one book, “Samouel, that is, ‘The called
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