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Old Testament Survey: The Message, Form, and Background of the Old Testament (Second Edition) is unavailable, but you can change that!

Since its initial publication in 1982, Old Testament Survey has served as the standard textbook on the background, content, literary quality, and message of the Old Testament. The second edition of this excellent work has been thoroughly revised and updated to take into account new research in the field of Old Testament studies. The book now also includes important new contributions from six...

particular (first four commands, vv. 1–13); (2) the adornment of the cosmos, from the imperfect to the perfect (second four commands, vv. 14–31). The account rises to a crescendo in the eighth command, the creation of human beings. The whole chapter reads less like a story than a carefully constructed report of a series of commands. Similarly, ch. 5 and 11:10–32 are genealogies shaped to repeat the same structure for each generation. Again, ch. 10, an ethno-geographical list, is marked by a similar
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