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For more than twenty-five years students have used Eugene Merrill’s An Historical Survey of the Old Testament as a comprehensive but concise study of the first thirty-nine books of the Bible. The fifteen printings of the first edition attest to the enduring usefulness of his work. Introductory material examines the nature of the Old Testament and its literary genre, recounting a history of...

used Hebrew. Following the completion of the Hebrew canon, the Old Testament was translated into various languages, like Greek (the Septuagint version of ca. 250 B.C.), Syriac, and Latin. Texts of the Old Testament As the years passed following the composition of the original manuscripts by the prophets and other Old Testament writers, scribes copied these originals many times, and the originals eventually disappeared. It is likely that they were written on perishable materials like papyrus and parchments,
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