People of the Covenant: An Introduction to the Hebrew Bible

by Henry Jackson Flanders Jr., David A. Smith, Jr. Flanders Henry Jackson

Book Overview

Fully revised and updated using contemporary literary approaches and the most recent historical scholarship, this introduction to the Hebrew Bible provides a thorough and coherent approach to the basic human issues of the Scriptures. It emphasizes the meanings that the Hebrews gave to persons and events in their attempts to manage life's struggles, and provides textual aids that help students understand these ideas and apply them to contemporary issues...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195093704
• ISBN13: 9780195093704
• Release Date: February 1996
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 576 Pages
• Weight: 2.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.8" x 9.6"

Customer Reviews

Excellent content but many proofreading errors

This introductory textbook gives a balanced (neither overly conservative nor overly liberal) introduction to all of the classical interpretive questions. Unfortunately, many proofreading errors found in the previous edition have not been corrected in this edition. Some of these errors are substantive, such as putting all of the prophetic books under the heading "former prophets" on p.18 and putting Jerusalem instead of Samaria as the city conquered by the Assyrians in 722 (in the glossary under "transcolonization"). However, an alert teacher can compensate for these types of flaws in an otherwise very competent presentation of the contents and interpretative issues of Hebrew Bible.