Concise yet comprehensive, manageable and affordable, T&T Clark Study Guides are an invaluable resource for students, preachers and Bible study leaders. Each book in the series gives the reader a thorough introduction to a particular book of the Bible or the Apocrypha and includes:

- An introduction to the contents of the particular biblical book
- A balanced survey of the important critical issues
- Attention to literary, historical, sociological, and theological perspectives
- Suggestions about critical appropriation of the text by the contemporary reader
- Reference...

Concise yet comprehensive, manageable and affordable, T&T Clark Study Guides are an invaluable resource for students, preachers and Bible study leaders. Each book in the series gives the reader a thorough introduction to a particular book of the Bible or the Apocrypha and includes:

- An introduction to the contents of the particular biblical book
- A balanced survey of the important critical issues
- Attention to literary, historical, sociological, and theological perspectives
- Suggestions about critical appropriation of the text by the contemporary reader
- Reference...

Concise yet comprehensive, manageable and affordable, T&T Clark Study Guides are an invaluable resource for students, preachers and Bible study leaders. Each book in the series gives the reader a thorough introduction to a particular book of the Bible or the Apocrypha and includes:

- An introduction to the contents of the particular biblical book
- A balanced survey of the important critical issues
- Attention to literary, historical, sociological, and theological perspectives
- Suggestions about critical appropriation of the text by the contemporary reader
- Reference...

Mason here provides a valuable basic orientation to the modern reading of these short and often difficult prophetic books. By carefully surveying and evaluating the historical critical options that have been proposed during the last century, Mason then outlines the message of these books within a post-exilic, canonical context.

In the face of differing critical opinion as to what does, and what does not, come from Micah in the book of Micah, the position taken here is that the book has to be read finally as a coherent postexilic tract which re-interprets the prophet's message in the...

Originally published as part of the acclaimed Sheffield Guides series, this helpful study-guide is designed to meet the needs of students and general readers in a concise, accessible and affordable format.

The complete set of books will offer a comprehensive introduction to the Bible and related writings.

Each study-guide comprises
-An Introduction to the content and message of the particular book
-A survey of the significant critical issues
-An assesment of recent scholarship
-Signposts towards major critical works in the area
-Annotated bibliographies

T...

Originally published as part of the acclaimed Sheffield Guides series, this helpful study-guide is designed to meet the needs of students and general readers in a concise, accessible and affordable format.

The complete set of books will offer a comprehensive introduction to the Bible and related writings.

Each study-guide comprises
-An Introduction to the content and message of the particular book
-A survey of the significant critical issues
-An assesment of recent scholarship
-Signposts towards major critical works in the area
-Annotated bibliographies

T...