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• Author/Creator:Anderson, Bernhard W.
  
• Title:Understanding the Old Testament / Bernhard W. Anderson ; assisted by Katheryn Phisterer Darr.
  
• ISBN:0139483993
  9780139483998
  
• Edition:Abridged 4th ed.
  
• Published/Created:Upper Saddle River, NJ : Prentice Hall, ©1998.
  
• Physical Description:xix, 635 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm
  

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  • Call Number: BS1197 .A63 1998
    
  • Status:Not Checked Out
    

   
• Notes:Maps of the Ancient Near East and Palestine on endpapers.
  
• Variant and related titles:Old Testament
  
• Format:Book
• BibliographyIncludes bibliographical references (pages 591-625) and index.
  
• Contents:Introduction: The Old Testament as the story of a people -- pt. 1: The creation of a people -- The beginnings of Israel -- Liberation from bondage -- Covenant in the wilderness -- The promised land -- The formation of an all-Israelite epic -- The struggle between faith and culture -- pt. 2: Israel becomes like the nations -- The throne of David -- Prophetic troublers of Israel -- Fallen is the virgin Israel -- Judah's covenant with death -- The rediscovery of Mosaic Torah -- The doom of the nation -- pt. 3: The covenant community is renewed -- By the waters of Babylon -- The dawn of a new age -- A kingdom of priests -- The praises of Israel -- The beginning of wisdom -- The unfinished story.
  
• Subjects:Bible. Old Testament--History of Biblical events.
  Bible. Old Testament.
  Jews--History--To 70 A.D.
  History of Biblical events.
  Jews.
  
• Genre/Form:History.
  
• Also listed under:Darr, Katheryn Phisterer, 1952-