Old Testament and Hebrew Bible

A new book by one of the world's leading biblical scholars. This text is most useful for all students training for ministry, ordained and lay, who have to study biblical interpretation.

This book has a simple aim: to help people to enjoy reading the prophetic books of the Old Testament, one by one and as a whole. At the same time it offers some tools which will help in making the texts more understandable.

Phyllis Trible examines four Old Testament narratives of suffering in ancient Israel: Hagar, Tamar, an unnamed concubine and the daughter of Jephthah. The stories prompt much reflection on contemporary misuse of the Bible, and therefore have...

Beautifully-written and accessible reflection on what the Church does when it reads the Bible.

After teaching the Psalms for over twenty years, Magonet has found very little on rabbinical interpretation, ancient, mediaeval or modern. This is an introduction to the Hebrew text that gives access to the richness and complexity of the language of...

Establishing the relevance of Old Testament ethics to contemporary life is, as John Barton concedes, an uphill task. For many Christians today – let alone those with no religious commitment – to find some way of accommodating them into a...

Lies Sex and Politicians connects what for many people seems like two different worlds: the world of the Old Testament and the world of the contemporary experience.