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Hearing the Old Testament: Listening for God’s Address is unavailable, but you can change that!

In Hearing the Old Testament world-class scholars discuss how contemporary Christians can better hear and appropriate God’s address in the Old Testament. This volume is part of a growing interest in theological interpretation of the Old Testament. Editors Craig G. Bartholomew and David J. H. Beldman offer a coherent and carefully planned volume, a truly dialogical collaboration full of...

many instances led to a much richer and more nuanced understanding of the text, which enables those with ears to hear to appreciate the divine word the text enshrines. In what follows I shall try to show how these approaches illuminate the message of the Pentateuch. But the interpretation of the opening chapters of the Pentateuch is not clarified by these methods so much as by comparing them with other oriental texts of a similar genre. As an account of creation Genesis 1 invites comparison
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