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Introducing the Old Testament is unavailable, but you can change that!

In this up-to-date, student-friendly text, Robert Hubbard and J. Andrew Dearman bring decades of scholarly study and classroom experience to bear as they introduce readers to the context, composition, and message of the Old Testament. Each chapter orients readers to the Old Testament book or books under consideration, outlining historical and cultural background, literary features, main...

out of the city. (For details, consult the appropriate tables at the conclusion to chapters 10 and 16 on Neo-Babylonian rulers, Persian kings, Hellenistic rulers, and the Hasmonean family.) Modern readers face two basic options with respect to the book of Daniel. (1) One option is to take seriously the exilic/early postexilic setting of the narratives as an indication of when the book was written and to assume that the depictions of the Greek Empire are supernatural knowledge granted to Daniel by
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