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Can I read A survey of the Old Testament on EtoBox?
A survey of the Old Testament by Hill, Andrew E.; Walton, John H. is a religious work available to read on EtoBox.
What is A survey of the Old Testament about?
This innovative textbook at long last provides an Old Testament survey for undergraduate students that goes beyond basic content. The book attempts to balance the literary, historical, and theological issues pertaining to each individual book and to the Old Testament as a whole. The main portion of the survey treats each book of the Old Testament in the order of the English canon. This information does not simply rehash the biblical material, but assumes that the Scriptures are being read alongside the survey. The book focuses its primary attention on the purpose and message of each book and attempts to show how the literary structure of each one has been used to accomplish the author's purpose. The survey also introduces readers to the issues of hermeneutics (general and special), history (Israelite and Near Eastern), archaeology, canon, geography, Old Testament theology (biblical and systematic), and critical methodologies. All these issues are dealt with in separate chapters at a basic introductory level that never allows the reader to lose sight, as it were, of the forest while wandering through the trees. In addressing critical issues of date and authorship, the survey avoids
Who reads A survey of the Old Testament?
It is typically read by readers engaging with religious study and devotional practice.
Common subject areas: religion, theology.
- Author
- Hill, Andrew E.; Walton, John H.
- Publisher
- Zondervan Publishing House
- Published
- 2017
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780310590668
- Category
- religious
- Subjects
- Religion, Christian, Bible
- Rating
- 3.86 / 5 (133 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14