Product Description: The profound learning, accurate scholarship, and deep Christian feeling evident on every page of the commentary make it of the greatest value to the student of the Old Testament, and one of the most important contributions to biblical scholarship in recent times' (Times Literary Supplement)...read more

Examines the common characteristics in the message of the Old Testament prophets

Product Description: 'without question the most important study of the prophets for more than a generation .. which can be read and appreciated by ordinary people. It will make the prophets live anew for every reader, and it may be strongly commended as superb value for money...read more

Product Description: Essential books for the serious student of the Old Testament.... It is scarcely possible to read von Rad without having the understanding and enjoyment of the Old Testament greatly increased. No serious student of the Bible at the level of theological student or minister can afford not to read him' (Theology)...read more

Product Description: This volume contains some of the most important and enduring work of Gerhard von Rad, the most influential Old Testament theologian of the twentieth century. The chapters cover a broad range of topics, including the doctrine of creation, memory and tradition in Deuteronomy, historical writing in ancient Israel, cultic language in the Psalms, and the Old Testament worldview...read more

Product Description: This republication of a classic work contains a new introduction by Walter Brueggemann that places Gerhard von Rad's work within the context of German theology, Old Testament theology, and the history of interpretation of the Old Testament...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This republication of a classic work contains a new introduction by Walter Brueggemann that places Gerhard von Rad's work within the context of German theology, Old Testament theology, and the history of interpretation of the Old Testament...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: From the earliest days of Israel's existence as a people, holy war was a sacred institution, undertaken as a cultic act of a religious community. The concept of holy war, an intriguing and sometimes disturbing theme in the Old Testament, is given its most articulate expression in this classic study by the distinguished German scholar Gerhard von Rad...read more

Product Description: In this great and notable volume the most original mind of Old Testament scholarship Gerhard von Rad offers his interpretation of Israel's wisdom.