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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...

by anonymous individuals who tried to give their compositions sanction by appending the names of Moses and the prophets to them. There are two major lines of evidence to establish the credibility of the Old Testament, internal and external, and these will be considered in that order. First, the Pentateuch claims to have been written by Moses (Exod. 17:14; Num. 33:1–2; Deut. 31:22), and other books of the Old Testament concur without dissent (Judg. 3:4; 2 Kings 21:8; Mal. 4:4). Moreover, intertestamental
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