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The Old Testament: A Historical and Literary Introduction to the Hebrew Scriptures
The Old Testament A Historical and Literary Introduction to the Hebrew Scriptures Author:Michael D. Coogan Lucidly written by leading biblical scholar Michael D. Coogan, this balanced, engaging, and up-to-date introduction to the Hebrew scriptures distills the best of current scholarship. Employing the narrative chronology of the Bible itself and the history of the ancient Near East as a framework, Coogan covers all the books of the Hebrew Bible, alo... more »ng with the deuterocanonical books included in the Bible used by many Christians. He works from a primarily historical and critical methodology but also introduces students to literary analysis and other interpretive strategies.
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* Updates and revisions throughout, including new material on recent archaeological discoveries, new translations of many of the ancient texts, and new and revised maps and illustrations
* A new Table of Weights and Measures that provides modern equivalents for biblical weights and measures
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* An updated Instructor's Manual with Computerized Test Bank on CD
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