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Introduction to the Bible is the indispensable prologue to the entire series of the New Collegeville Bible Commentary. Dividing the contents into two parts, Gregory W. Dawes describes how the Old and New Testaments came to be put together and explores how their stories have been interpreted over the centuries. In the words of Dawes, this very broad overview of a very complex history offers the...

religious traditions. The traditions in question are those that make up our biblical books of Joshua, Judges, Samuel, and Kings. Many scholars believe that these books have been edited into a more or less unified story, often described as the “Deuteronomistic History,” because of its similarity in spirit to the book of Deuteronomy.
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