An Introduction to the Old Testament <subTitle>The canon and Christian imagination</subTitle> </titleInfo> <titleInfo> <title/> </titleInfo> <name type="personal"> <namePart>Brueggemann, Walter</namePart> <role> <roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">creator</roleTerm> </role> </name> <name type="personal"> <namePart/> <role> <roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">creator</roleTerm> </role> <role> <roleTerm type="text">Author</roleTerm> </role> </name> <typeOfResource>text</typeOfResource> <originInfo> <place> <placeTerm type="code" authority="marccountry">8:0</placeTerm> </place> <place> <placeTerm type="text">U.S.A</placeTerm> </place> <publisher>Westminster John Knox Press</publisher> <dateIssued>2003</dateIssued> <issuance>monographic</issuance> </originInfo> <language> <languageTerm authority="iso639-2b" type="code">eng</languageTerm> </language> <physicalDescription> <extent>434tr.</extent> <extent>Paperback, illustrations</extent> <extent>23cm</extent> </physicalDescription> <abstract>In this book, Walter Brueggemann, America's premier biblical theologian, introduces the reader to the broad theological scope and chronological sweep of the Old Testament. Covering each book of the Old Testament - in the order in which it appears in the Hebrew Bible - the Introduction explains without unnecessary jargon the most important issues and methods in contemporary interpretation of the Old Testament - literary, historical, and theological.</abstract> <note type="statement of responsibility">Walter Brueggemann</note> <subject> <topic>Bible - Old Testament - Criticism, interpretation, etc</topic> </subject> <subject> <topic>Bible -- Old Testament -- Introductions</topic> </subject> <classification authority="ddc">221.61</classification> <classification authority="ddc">W231-B89</classification> <identifier type="isbn">9780664224127, 0664224121</identifier> <identifier type="uri">https://data.thuviencodoc.org/books/13286/o.jpg</identifier> <location> <url displayLabel="Cover Image">https://data.thuviencodoc.org/books/13286/o.jpg</url> </location> <recordInfo> <recordCreationDate encoding="marc">2024-0</recordCreationDate> <recordChangeDate encoding="iso8601">20260119071232.0</recordChangeDate> </recordInfo> </mods>