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Reading the Old Testament was recognized as a classic introductory text almost from its first appearance in 1984. Without diminishing its famed clarity and theological depth, two prominent scholars, Richard Clifford and Daniel Harrington, have brought the book into the twenty-first century, revising and updating the text for a new generation of readers. Dive into this clear and comprehensive...

account, we find a second in which Judah is the one who pleads for Joseph, and so the brothers sell him to Ishmaelites instead. At other times we find two different words appearing again and again throughout the Pentateuch for the same object. Thus, the mountain on which God gives the covenant is sometimes called Sinai, and sometimes Horeb. Or the people who live in Palestine are called sometimes Canaanites and sometimes Amorites. All of these examples can be explained by themselves with some skill
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