A General Introduction to the Bible, revised & expanded

Your starting point for Bible study is right here. All your "beginning" questions are answered: Who wrote the Bible? Which books belong in it? Has it been accurately preserved and translated? This edition includes new sections on the inerrancy of the Bible, recent trends in textual criticism, a review of modern English translations, and more.

Here's a comprehensive, up-to-date guide to the Bible and its significance for your life. User-friendly and geared to all levels of Bible knowledge, five sections offer practical study helps on all aspects of the Bible -- its backgrounds, themes, and applications.

Well-written, thoroughly researched, and useful to both scholars and laypeople, Harrison's superb volume offers you a comprehensive review of Old Testament studies; a detailed discussion of each book; and a lucid overview of every book in the Apocrypha.

Twenty years after it was first issued, Dr. Guthrie has undertaken a careful reworking of his classic New Testament Introduction. This new edition takes into account the past two decades of biblical scholarship as it discusses the issues of authorship and authenticity, purpose and structure, historical context and cultural setting of each New Testament book.

This revised edition of Robert H. Gundry's Survey of the New Testament goes beyond providing background information and technical introductory material and leads students to read the New Testament itself. Whenever possible general questions of introduction and background are tied to assigned readings covering the entire New Testament. In addition, comments on these readings help students with interpretation and follow the flow of thought from one passage to another.

Invaluable to pastors, students, scholars, and laypeople who want to understand conservative ideas about the Old Testament! This newly revised and updated volume will help you understand the difficult subjects of canonicity, biblical inspiration, and textual problems, as well as give you insight into specific issues in individual books. (image from Amazon.com)

[This book] balances the literary, historical, and theological issues pertaining to each individual book of the Old Testament and to the Old Testament as a whole. This survey introduces students on a basic, introductory level to the issues of hermeneutics (general and special), history (Israelite and Ancient Near Eastern), archaeology, canon, geography, Old Testament theology (biblical and systematic), and critical methodologies. It also explores the purpose and message of each book and shows how its literary structure has been applied to accomplish the intention of its inspired author.

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