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 ...

Boyd omits all of this because he treats these books and the Old Testament at large as an almost unrelenting train of horrors—a massacre of babes, as in the woman’s summary. Besides the fact that this ...

The Book of Hebrews illuminates much Old Testament typology concerning Christ. Most important, Jesus Christ tells us in several places in the New Testament that the entire Old Testament points to Him.

People of the Covenant: An Invitation to the Old Testament Dianne Bergant, CSA. Sheed & Ward, $16.95 (216pp) ISBN 978-1-58051-090-5 ...

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.