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Title: Reading the Old Testament: An Introduction by Lawrence Boadt ISBN: 0-8091-2631-1 Publisher: Paulist Press Pub. Date: February, 1985 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.2 (10 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Not Divinely Inspired?
Comment: This book is probably the best Inrto to the OT I've seen. It is highly readable, the suggested scripture readings are excellent, and one really does marvel at how neatly themes are woven to the entire Old Testament, almost to the point of being tied up with a bow! Readers who take from this book that its author sees biblical texts as "not inspired by God" would do well to read it again! The whole point of the book is to show how the Israelites used their historical experiences as a lens through which to view their relationship with God, and ultimately God's relationship with all of mankind. As such, it traces the evolution of the development of the biblical texts through Israel's history. Of course Israelites were influenced by other cultures: they were continually surrounded by, at war with, and often oppressed by them! It would be a very strange thing for these influences NOT to be evidenced in the text! Granted, as witnessed in my recent "Intro to the OT Class" that used this book as a primary text, the need to separate "faith" and "history" temporarily to see how these books developed is a daunting undertaking; however, one's individual faith can only be enhanced by realization that it was Israel's faith in God that provided the impetus for the eventual writing down of oral tradition in the first place.
Rating: 5
Summary: Should be the standard seminary OT intro textbook
Comment: Boadt's book is a masterpiece of introducing critical, theological methods to the professional or casual theologian. It is simply the best OT book I've read and several friends that I have recommended it to have agreed. Although it was intended to be graduate level, it is being used increasingly at the undergraduate level, even at some more traditionally fundamentalist schools.
Boadt is Catholic? I only know that from the reviews, and it is a testimony to his scholarship and objective approach to theology that you will not notice his Catholicism from reading this work. He is not a liberal either, I would best describe him as neo-evangelical in that he is not an inerrantist but neither is he a secular scholar. His love and respect for the Bible shows in his treatment of it. Although he is not afraid to utilize critical techniques to deal with issues of date, authorship and meaning of the Bible, he is not a text-critic by profession and so avoids that fields' tendency to dismember the Bible from over strenuous application of their pecular model.
I believe the best part of the books are his explanation of Jonah as in the genre of "Hebrew comedy" and his introduction to and application of source crit (JEPD) to the Torah. I never understood how overwhelming is the case for JEPD nor did I understand why the theory is so compelling until I read Boadt. He has converted me to an understanding of source criticism and has greatly matured and formed my theology.
Rating: 5
Summary: Best OT Intro Available
Comment: This is a great introduction to the Old Testament. Those who label Boadt a "liberal" or "heterodox" either haven't read this book or don't understand what the Catholic Church teaches. Typically the criticism against Boadt comes from two arenas, fundamentalist Protestants or fundamentalist Catholic "popologists" like those from EWTN or Catholic Answers. While Boadt is a Roman Catholic, his book will benefit those of any denomination. His scholarship is first rate. Boadt places the OT in its proper historical context. He provides concise summaries of the books, the process by which the books were redacted and shaped, and how the message of each book contributes to the OT as a whole. You can't go wrong with this solid piece of scholarship.
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Title: Reading the New Testament: An Introduction by Pheme Perkins ISBN: 0809129396 Publisher: Paulist Press Pub. Date: March, 1988 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: The Catholic Study Bible: New American Bible by Donald Senior, Mary Ann Getty, Carroll Stuhlmueller, John J. Collins, Oxford University Press ISBN: 0195282779 Publisher: Oxford Press Pub. Date: 1990 List Price(USD): $34.99 |
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Title: Dictionary of the Bible by John L. McKenzie ISBN: 0684819139 Publisher: Touchstone Books Pub. Date: October, 1995 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
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Title: Introduction to the New Testament by Raymond E. Brown ISBN: 0385247672 Publisher: Anchor Bible Pub. Date: 13 October, 1997 List Price(USD): $49.95 |
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Title: The New Jerome Biblical Commentary by Raymond Edward Brown, Joseph A. Fitzmyer, Roland Edmund Murphy ISBN: 0136149340 Publisher: Pearson PTP Pub. Date: September, 1989 List Price(USD): $75.00 |
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