Admiration and gratitude should be equally widespread for Coogan's ability to be at once clear, concise, and convincing. Essential. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty and professionals; general readers.
Michael Coogan has been Lecturer on the Old Testament/Hebrew Bible at the Harvard Divinity School and the Director of Publications for the Harvard Semitic Museum. He is the editor of The New Oxford Annotated Bible, The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Books of the Bible, and The Old Testament: A Very Short Introduction.