240 pages
Publisher: IVP Academic
Published: December 10, 2019
ISBN: 978-0-8308-5269-7
The Old Testament is one of the issues quite unknown to most Christians. We see a lot of its content from afar, so that we lose its spiritual wealth.
From the Hebrew Bible, we know topics such as creation, the exodus and some stories of the kings. Ah! And we also know the ten commandments, but many believe they are things of the past. That nothing or little has to do with us.
However, the reality is not so. In this book, Professor Carmen Joy Imes, does a fantastic job of exposing a profound idea that taking the name of God in vain, is not only to use his name lightly, but that we, the people of God, are name bearers. We carry the name of God.
Thus, the history of Israel is our history as well.
Our journey begins in the desert and ends in our time, we know a lot about the people of Israel and God's revelation to them, and we also know how all this relates to us.
Do not think that this is a reading full of technicality and complex terms, but quite the opposite is a writing that addresses deep topics with language accessible to every reader.
At the end of each chapter you can find reference to other works to deepen the idea presented in that chapter. I personally enjoyed chapters 2, 3 and 8.
It is worth mentioning that this book was chosen as one of the finalists for Best Books in Old Testament Studies in 2019 by The Center for Biblical Studies and Biblical Foundations. You can see more about that, here
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I received this book for free from the publisher and was not required to write a positive review for the book.
I received this book for free from the publisher and was not required to write a positive review for the book.
