Coogan, Chapman, The Old Testament 5e

The Old Testament: A Historical and Literary Introduction to the Hebrew Scriptures provides a balanced, engaging, and up-to-date introduction to the Hebrew scriptures, distilling the best of current scholarship. Employing the narrative chronology of the Bible itself and the history of the ancient Near East as a framework, Michal D. Coogan and Cynthia R. Chapman cover all the books of the Hebrew Bible, along with the deuterocanonical books included in the Bible used by many Christians. They work from a primarily historical and critical methodology but also introduces students to literary analysis and other interpretive strategies.