An entirely different type of history is S. M. Wright’s A Brief Survey of the Bible (Loiseaux Bros.). Here the traditional view of the story of the Old Testament is maintained. The book of Job ...

I t’s hard to imagine a more influential book than the Bible. When its ancient Old Testament and not-quite-as-ancient New Testament are taken into account, the Bible has been a part of the human ...

A book of history, Ezra is with the other books of history earlier in the Old Testament. It tells the story of the Israelites returning to the Promised Land after they were held as captives in ...

The Old Testament’s teachings, too, offer timeless truths that seek to connect us with God and our neighbors. Perhaps a more puzzling mistruth is that “the Old Testament is a boring history book.” Au ...

When Howard Vanderpool was in Bible school, a professor who taught the Old Testament book of Exodus inspired him to learn more about the tabernacle believed to have been built by Israelites about ...

The Old Testament in Catholic Bibles contains seven more books than are found in Protestant Bibles (46 and 39, respectively). Protestants call them (inaccurately) the Apocrypha , while Catholics ...

The Books of the Old Testament, by Robert H. Pfeiffer (Harper) is an abridgement of his earlier Introduction. ... history or theology. Two small books are devoted to the topic more particularly.