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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...

ironically, is at the heart of the current challenge which historical criticism faces—a challenge to both its notion of history and its notion of a text.16 Believing readers may at this point object and say that advocates of both historical and literary approaches are wrong to assume that the Bible is like any other book and hence should be read like any other book. However, one of the marvels of our God is that we hear his voice as it is mediated through human writers, using the conventions of literary
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