Smyth & Helwys Bible Commentary Supplemental Series
Mark McEntire
Any sustained reading of the Old Testament will reveal that, as a composite document, it has seams, fractures, and conflicting components. The Internal Conversation of the Old Testament embraces these features as essential to the text. The many voices editors brought into the text were engaged in a conversation about questions vital to human existence. How do we remember our ancestors? How do we portray our heroes? How do we govern ourselves? How do we measure our successes and failures? Careful attention allows us to overhear this ancient conversation and bring what we can learn from it into modern conversations about these and other questions that still center our communal lives.
Mark McEntire is professor of biblical studies at Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee. He held prior teaching positions in North Carolina and Ethiopia. He is the author of books including Portraits of a Mature God, An Apocryphal God, A Chorus of Prophetic Voices, and The Old Testament Story. He serves as Old Testament general editor for the Smyth & Helwys Bible Commentary Supplemental Series.
Any sustained reading of the Old Testament will reveal that, as a composite document, it has seams, fractures, and conflicting components. The Internal Conversation of the Old Testament embraces these features as essential to the text. The many voices editors brought into the text were engaged in a conversation about questions vital to human existence. How do we remember our ancestors? How do we portray our heroes? How do we govern ourselves? How do we measure our successes and failures? Careful attention allows us to overhear this ancient conversation and bring what we can learn from it into modern conversations about these and other questions that still center our communal lives.
Mark McEntire is professor of biblical studies at Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee. He held prior teaching positions in North Carolina and Ethiopia. He is the author of books including Portraits of a Mature God, An Apocryphal God, A Chorus of Prophetic Voices, and The Old Testament Story. He serves as Old Testament general editor for the Smyth & Helwys Bible Commentary Supplemental Series.
The Internal Conversation of the Old Testament
Smyth & Helwys Bible Commentary Supplemental Series
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