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Confronting Old Testament Controversies: Pressing Questions about Evolution, Sexuality, History, and Violence is unavailable, but you can change that!

The Old Testament is rife with controversial passages and events that raise questions about its continued significance for today. Often our solutions have tended toward the extremes—ignore problem passages and pretend they don’t matter or obsess over them and treat them as though they are the only thing that matters. Now Old Testament scholar Tremper Longman confronts pressing questions of...

Readers today have their choices in Bibles (the New International Version, the New Living Translation, The Message, the English Standard Version, and on and on) and a plethora of books written by committed Christian scholars. But younger readers may not realize that this wealth of resources is a recent phenomenon. Back in the early 1970s we had only the Revised Standard Version (a high-style translation that for various reasons, good and bad, was not acceptable to the evangelical church), the King
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