Encountering Ancient Voices: A Guide to Reading the Old Testament

Encountering Ancient Voices: A Guide to Reading the Old Testament. By Corrine L. Carvalho. (St. Mary's Press, 496 pp., $43.75 paperback.) This textbook is aimed at college students, but it is so engaging, insightful and well researched that it addresses anyone interested in learning about the Old Testament. Its sidebars on such subjects as archaeology, the settlement of the land, the Bible and art, and various biblical-study methods do not dumb down sophisticated material; they clarify it as a gift for readers. Included are maps, suggestions for further reading, and thought-provoking questions at the ends of the chapters.

Selected by Kathleen M. O'Connor, who teaches Old Testament at Columbia Theological Seminary in Decatur, Georgia.

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