Engaging and accessible to students from all backgrounds,
A Brief Introduction to the Old Testament: The Hebrew Bible in Its Context,
Fourth Edition, is an updated, concise, and more accessible version of Michael D. Coogan and Cynthia R. Chapman's best-selling
The Old Testament: A Historical and Literary Introduction to the Hebrew Scriptures,
Fourth Edition (OUP, 2017). The authors work primarily from a historical and critical methodology but also introduce students to literary analysis and other interpretive strategies.
Providing a nondenominational and nondoctrinal treatment, this text offers a unique and captivating introduction to the Hebrew scriptures themselves and to how they have been—and can be—interpreted.
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