The term “Old Testament” is a loaded one since it assumes the existence of a “new” testament — an idea Christians and ...

but also from the recent growth in knowledge of the social and political history of the biblical period and the development of new ways of evaluating prehistory. In Understanding the Old Testament the ...

This title is available on our Higher Education website. This volume introduces ancient Israel's Scriptures, or the Hebrew Bible, commonly called the Old Testament. It also traces the legacy of ...