Product Description: This book introduces the background and contents of the Old Testament, together with the methods used in its study and the ways in which it is read, both traditional and contemporary. Topics include the development of the Old Testament, the early history of Israel, and Hebrew laws, Apodictic and Casuistic...read more

Product Description: Two rival views dominate contemporary Jeremiah scholarship. One sees the book as essentially a Deuteronomistic product, the other as stemming largely from the prophet himself. McConville enters into dialogue with both sides of the debate before setting out his own approach to reading the book of Jeremiah...read more

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