includes index and biblioraphy

This second edition of `An Introduction to the Old Testament` integrates and interacts with recent developments in Old Testament scholarship. Several distinctives set it apart from other introductions to the Old testament. - It is thoroughly evangelical in its perspective - It emphasizes special introduction - the study of individual books - It interacts in an irenic spirit with the historical-critical method - It features points of research history and representative scholars rather than an exhaustive treatment of past scholarship - It deals with the meaning of each book, not in isolation but in a canonical context - It probes the meaning of each book in the setting of its culture.