The Hebrew Bible: A Contemporary Introduction to the Christian Old Testament and the Jewish Tanakh

By David McLain Carr

This fully revised edition provides a brief, up-to-date introduction to the Hebrew/Bible Old Testament placed in a broader context of world history. It tells a story of the emergence of the Bible, organizing coverage of Biblical books along a historical framework. The major scenes of the story are the various empires that shaped the Hebrew Bible: Mesopotamian and Egyptian, Assyrian, Babylonian, Persian, and Hellenistic. It also shows ways that the Bible was interpreted quite differently by Jews and Christians in later historical contexts, as each community used the same traditions to guide and make sense of their lives. And it introduces the reader to a multiplicity of scholarly methods used to explore the formation of the Hebrew Bible and its subsequent interpretation.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1119636671
• ISBN13: 9781119636670
• Release Date: April 2021
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.6" x 9.5"