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    The Epic of Eden: A Christian Entry into the Old Testament
    The Epic of Eden: A Christian Entry into the Old Testament
    The Epic of Eden: A Christian Entry into the Old Testament
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    The Epic of Eden: A Christian Entry into the Old Testament

    Written by Sandra L. Richter

    Narrated by Pam Ward

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    About this audiobook

    Does your knowledge of the Old Testament feel like a grab bag of people, books, events, and ideas? How many times have you resolved to really understand the OT? To finally make sense of it?

    Perhaps you are suffering from what Sandra Richter calls the "dysfunctional closet syndrome." If so, she has a solution. Like a home-organizing expert, she comes in and helps you straighten up your cluttered closet. Gives you hangers for facts. A timeline to put them on. And handy containers for the clutter on the floor. Plus she fills out your wardrobe of knowledge with exciting new facts and new perspectives.

    The whole thing is put in usable order-a history of God's redeeming grace. A story that runs from the Eden of the Garden to the garden of the New Jerusalem. Whether you are a frustrated do-it-yourselfer or a beginning student enrolled in a course, this book will organize your understanding of the Old Testament and renew your enthusiasm for studying the Bible as a whole.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateJul 18, 2018
    ISBN9781541445345
    The Epic of Eden: A Christian Entry into the Old Testament
    Author

    Sandra L. Richter

    Sandra L. Richter (PhD, Harvard University) is Robert H. Gundry Chair of Old Testament Studies at Westmont College. She is a graduate of Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary and Harvard University's Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations department, and she previously was a professor of Old Testament at Wheaton College. Her publications include The Deuteronomistic History and the Name Theology and articles in Eerdmans' Handbook to the Bible and Dictionary of the Old Testament: Historical Books.

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    • 5/5
      What a great introduction to the Old Testament(OT) ! Richter did as she promised; helping a believer organize his or her own "OT closet" into a functional space where one can continually add current and future insights gleaned from studying the OT. The author also elaborated on the principles and concepts we are familiar with in the New Testament (NT); connecting us to its origin in the OT. This helped me appreciate and understand these concepts better. I love that everything comes in full circle as the author points to the redemptive power of Jesus Christ for us as part of the New Covenant.
    • 5/5
      Really good book in helping readers navigate through the Old Testament
    • 5/5
      It is lamentable that Richter has to write in the introduction to this book that too many Christians ignore the Old Testament preferring the seeming simplicity of the new--lamentable, but true. For those who have not spent much time in a church where the Old Testament is treated as pointing forward to Jesus, or even those who have but have never thought about the Old Testament story in a continuous, organised, beginning-to-end way, this book provides an excellent framework for understanding the Bible as a narrative wholly focussed around the same central goal: leading us to the Messiah.Richter uses the metaphor of organising clothes in a closet to help readers treat the creation narratives, Old Testament Israelite/Jewish culture, and the lives of Adam, Noah, Abraham, Moses, and David as the overall schematic with which to begin approaching the main theme of the Bible: that God has always wanted to be in relation with His people, and that He has continually made a way for us to do so, first through types pointing to Christ and then through Christ Himself. The author has an Arminian approach to salvation that I don't agree with, but it does not overwhelm her narrative, nor does she present it with disdain for those who disagree. I also wish she had spent more time on the often-confusing divided kingdoms and on the books of the prophets. However, there is a lot of fascinating information about the cultures of the fertile crescent, backed up by contemporary sources, that sheds new light on my understandings of the Bible. This book may challenge someone who holds a strict literal interpretation of Scripture, but given the kinds of insight Richter has to offer, that's probably a good thing. I can only hope that the book's subtitle hints at a possible future continuation into this interesting study.
    • 5/5
      I found this audiobook and am thrilled by the amount of detailed work put into compilation. Highly recommend this to anyone curious about the relationship of the covenants in the Old Testament and how those build up the redemptive plan of God through Christ—the New covenant.