Beschrijving
A Brief Introduction to the Old Testament : The Hebrew Bible In Its Context
Engaging and accessible to students from all backgrounds,A Brief Introduction to the Old Testament: The Hebrew Bible in Its Context,Second Edition, is an updated, concise, and more pedagogical version of Michael D. Coogan’s best-sellingThe Old Testament: A Historical and Literary Introduction to the Hebrew Scriptures,Second Edition (OUP, 2010).Coogan works primarily from a historical and critical methodology but also introduces students to literary analysis and other interpretive strategies.He examines all the books of the Hebrew Bible and considers additional writings from the ancient Near East. The Apocryphal / Deuterocanonical books are included in an appendix. Providing a nondenominational and nondoctrinal treatment, this text offers a unique and captivating introduction to the Hebrew scriptures themselves and to how they have been―and can be―interpreted.
About the author:
Michael D. Cooganis Professor Emeritus of Religious Studies at Stonehill College, Lecturer in the Hebrew Bible / Old Testament at Harvard Divinity School, and Director of Publications for the Harvard Semitic Museum. One of the leading biblical scholars in the United States, he is the author ofThe Old Testament: A Historical and Literary Introduction to the Hebrew Scriptures,Second Edition (OUP, 2010), the editor ofOxford Biblical Studies Online,and a coeditor ofThe New Oxford Annotated Bible, New Revised Standard Version,Fourth Edition (OUP, 2010).
For further NOTES See also the BACK of the book!
| Author: | Michael D. Coogan |
| ISBNrs: | 0199830118 9780199830114 |
