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What people are saying - Write a reviewOne of the best works of the 20th CenturyUser Review - Christianbook.comHarrison was a highly respected Old Testament scholar, author, and editor in latter part of the 20th century. He writes from an intelligently conservative stance. His “Introduction to the Old Testament,” was one of the works which re-established the credibility of belief in the basic reliability of the OT record. The work was also foundational for much of the best conservative scholarship of the 1970s to the present. This book is extremely detailed. It was written during a time when highly speculative theories were being propagated in order to support an extremely skeptical view of the historical reliability of the Old Testament. With rare exceptions, these skeptical views became the scholarly consensus at most seminaries and universities. Those who did choose to challenge the consensus were often simply ignored. This book by Harrison helped to change all of that. He methodically sifts through the historical, philosophical, archaeological, and textual arguments of his day. And he challenges many of the more speculative elements of them in so thorough a fashion that the work was difficult to ignore. The work is now becoming a little dated, but it is still unequalled in the depth and breadth of subjects covered. Every serious student of the Old Testament should own this book. Review: Introduction to the Old TestamentUser Review - Rev. John D. White - Christianbook.comHarrison's historical introduction regarding the past and present in Old Testament studies would be worth the purchase price of this volume. It is thorough and well done. However, following this is a ... Read full review Related books
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Common terms and phrasesAmos ancient Near Eastern appears Aramaic archaeological authorship Babylonian BASOR Bible Biblical Canaan Canaanite canon century B.C. chapters chronology compiled composition concept concerning considerable constituted contemporary Covenant critical cultic culture deity Deut Deuteronomy divine earlier early Egypt Egyptian Eissfeldt Elohistic evidence exile Exodus extent Ezekiel Ezra fact FSAC furnished Genesis Graf-Wellhausen Greek H. H. Rowley Habiru Hebrew text Hittite Hosea Hyksos important indicate interpretation Isaiah Israel Israelite Jeremiah Jerusalem Jewish Joshua Judah Judges Kings later Leviticus literary manuscripts Massoretic material Mesopotamia Mosaic Moses Mowinckel narratives nature Nuzu Old Testament oracles original Palestine patriarchal Pentateuch period post-exilic priestly prophecy prophet Qumran reference regarded religion religious revelation ritual Samaritan Samaritan Pentateuch Samuel scholars Scripture scroll sections Semitic Sinai sources subsequent tablets textual theology theory tion Torah tradition Ugaritic W. F. Albright Wellhausen writings Bibliographic information
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