Old Testament category: 2690 books
by Andrew E. Hill, John H. Walton
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
This innovative textbook at long last provides an Old Testament survey for undergraduate students that goes beyond basic content. The book attempts to balance the literary, historical, and theological issues pertaining to each individual book and to the Old Testament as a whole. The main portion of...
Do We Need the New Testament?
Letting the Old Testament Speak for Itself
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
Do we need the Old Testament? That's a familiar question, often asked. But as an Old Testament scholar, John Goldingay turns that question on its head: Do we need the New Testament? What's new about the New Testament? After all, the Old Testament was the only Bible Jesus and the disciples knew. Jesus...
At Home in a Strange Land
Using the Old Testament in Christian Ethics
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2009
The Old Testament is a problem for many Christians. Some find it puzzling, or even offensive; others seem to glibly misuse it for their own ends. There are few resources aimed at enabling ordinary Christians to understand the OT and use it in their lives as followers of Jesus.
In this book...
The Old Testament
A Historical, Theological, and Critical Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
A Respected Scholar Introduces Students to the Discipline of Old Testament Studies
Richard Hess, a trusted scholar of the Old Testament and the ancient Near East, offers a substantial introduction to the Old Testament that is accessibly written and informed by the latest biblical scholarship....
Dictionary of the Old Testament: Pentateuch
A Compendium of Contemporary Biblical Scholarship
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
A 2003 LOGOS Book Award WinnerAn ECPA 2003 Gold Medallion Finalist The first five books of the Old Testament lay the foundation on which the rest of Scripture stands. Its great themes, epochal events and towering figures set down vectors on which the biblical story is played out. The very shape of...
by Maan Khamis
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2017
The Old Testament is the foundation of all Abrahamic religions. It continues to have a sizable impact on human lives. The majority of Jews and Christians believe in its inerrancy. Muslims believe that the hands of men modified parts of the Old Testament. These believers fashion their concept of the...
Old Testament Theology
Israel's Faith
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2010
Old Testament Theology: Israel's Faith is the second of John Goldingay's magisterial three-volume Old Testament Theology. The award-winning first volume, Old Testament Theology: Israel's Gospel, followed the story line of the First Testament, developing its narrative theology. This volume finds its...
by Benjamin Galan
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2014
Many women in the Bible became unexpected heroines and were surprising instruments in God's story. Women of the Bible: Old Testament looks at 11 women in the Bible, featuring women such as Sarah, Hagar, Miriam, Rahab, and Esther. This beautiful bestselling pamphlet presents the women through story and...
WHY PROTESTANT BIBLES ARE SMALLER
A Defense of the Protestant Old Testament Canon
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2019
With over 600 references, "Why Protestant Bibles are smaller" defends the Protestant Old Testament canon using mostly Catholic resources including the Vatican, EWTN, Catholic Answers, and quotations from contemporary Catholic authors like Gary Michuta ("Why Catholic Bibles Are Bigger"),...
The World and the Word
An Introduction to the Old Testament
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2011
The World and the Word is a fresh introduction to the Old Testament driven largely by the fact that so much Christian preaching and teaching today increasingly ignores what is eighty percent of the Bible. Authors Eugene Merrill, Mark Rooker, and Michael Grisanti work through the world and text of...
by James P. Campbell, MA, DMin
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2011
The forty-six books of the Old Testament offer a rich feast of spiritual nourishment, yet they are by no means the easiest books to read and understand. Without a proper “tour guide,” a person’s trip through the Old Testament often ends shortly after it begins.
The Stories of the Old Testament...
by David Bokovoy
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2014
Book Description:
For the last two centuries, biblical scholars have made discoveries and insights about the Old Testament that have greatly changed the way in which the authorship of these ancient scriptures has been understood. In the first of three volumes spanning the entire Hebrew Bible,...
Reading Jesus's Bible
How the New Testament Helps Us Understand the Old Testament
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2017
For Jesus and his contemporaries, what we now know as the Old Testament was simply the Scriptures—and it was the fundamental basis of how people understood their relationship with God. In this book John Goldingay uncovers five major ways in which the New Testament uses the Old Testament. His discussion...
by Paul N. Benware
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2001
The New Testament Scriptures will never be properly understood by a person if the Old Testament Scriptures essentially remain a mystery to him,' says Paul Benware.Most Christians do not have a clear understanding of the pattern, unity, or progression of the Old Testament. They can tell stories of...