What people are saying - Write a reviewReview: 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 Review: Introduction to the Old TestamentUser Review - 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 marvelous evangelical statement of how the Old Testament was put together and how each book arrived at its present condition, plus an introduction to its theology and purpose. Harrison's book is a standard and rightfully so. Read this book carefully, and then read it again. 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 |