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The first part of David Hinson’s three-part introduction to the Old Testament gives a fascinating account of the history of Jews and their emerging consciousness as the People of God. Topics covered include: the Patriarchs and the beginnings of history; the Exodus; the Twelve Tribes; the first Kings; the two kingdoms of Israel and Judah; and chapters on the Assyrian, Babylonian, Persian, Greek...

The biblical account of the history of Israel begins with God’s call to Abraham to be the father of a new nation (Gen. 12:1f). The earlier chapters of Genesis contain the kind of stories which some scholars called myths (see p. 6), together with several ancient accounts of the beginnings and relationships of various other tribes and peoples. But in Genesis 12 we find the first of a connected series of stories, leading on from God’s call of Abraham, through
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