but also from the recent growth in knowledge of the social and political history of the biblical period and the development of new ways of evaluating prehistory. In Understanding the Old Testament the ...
This title is available on our Higher Education website. This volume introduces ancient Israel's Scriptures, or the Hebrew Bible, commonly called the Old Testament. It also traces the legacy of ...
The Old Testament books are grouped in the following ... The various divisions of the Biblical books are of rather recent origin. The Jews divided their sacred books into sections.