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A House for My Name: A Survey of the Old Testament
The best stories subtly weaves themes and characters and symbols into a stunning final tapestry. This Old Testament survey, written for family and classroom reading, reveals the rich weave that makes Scripture the Story of stories.
Paperback, 279 pages
Published
June 20th 2000
by Canon Press
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I've only read one survey of the OT before by Gleason Archer. Archer's book is very much a college level textbook going through each book with an introduction, critique of various approaches, and discussion. As I remember, it was filled with scholarly arcana and immense erudition of Near Eastern languages and literature.
Leithart's book was entirely different. It's less a textbook than a study of Old Testament typology that looks to Christ for its true fulfillment. One way to d...more
Leithart's book was entirely different. It's less a textbook than a study of Old Testament typology that looks to Christ for its true fulfillment. One way to d...more
This is the best survey of the Old Testament I have come across. It presents the Bible as a book that tells one story, and shows how the story makes sense through the various writers. I never saw how many times serpents getting their heads crushed in ran through the whole Bible! This book makes the Bible even more exciting than it was before, and shows how brilliantly organized the whole thing is. This is how to convince people of the authenticity of the Scriptures. The internal testimony i...more
Peter Leithart has written a wonderful survey of the Old Testament. He ignores the suject-matter of most surveys (authorship, sources, dates) to focus on the overarching metanarrative of the Old Testament and how those OT stories and figures ultimately point to Christ.
A very simply written book, although requiring much careful consideration from those readers who desire to grasp the greater whole that the individual parts of the individual books of the Bible point to. To do this, I...more
A very simply written book, although requiring much careful consideration from those readers who desire to grasp the greater whole that the individual parts of the individual books of the Bible point to. To do this, I...more
This is a very good book. As the first of it's kind, however, I'm sure it will be replaced, someday, but who knows when? It's kind is the sort of post-Elitist, typology grappling, big picture genre. This side of the Enlightenment, we have thrown out the Church Fathers and their "allegorical" interpretation of the OT. While we cannot restore such reading wholesale -- as if the last 500 years hadn't happened -- we can re-appropriate that material and see the benefit of it again.
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This book will transform your understanding of the Bible, the Christian Faith and literature in general all at the same time. For sure you will never read your Bible the same again. Simply superb. I can't recommend it enough. I've used it as the basis for Bible class material for adults and even for high school kids.
An exceptional intro and overview to the Old Testament. Great not only for its attention to the biblical narrative (including less known parts), but also for its distinctly Christian and typological approach. The book itself serves as an excellent introduction to how to read the Bible. With short sections tailed with review questions and conversation questions, this is an excellent resource for Bible studies, Sunday school, or family worship.
Great Read! This book filled in the gaps for me relative to the Biblical narrative and showed me the continuity of this narrative relative to both Old and New Testaments. Additionally, it introduced me to typological interpretation of scripture.
Analogous to Jordan's Through New Eyes in many ways, though the two are complementary. This is a little more accessible.
As always, Peter Leithart has written an excellent book, one that shows you both the "woof" and the "warp" of scripture. It seems often we view scripture in one-dimensional Bible story form, but rarely compare across the entire span of Biblical scripture. Leithart shows how this view can show you amazing truths. Have you ever thought how many times you see women at wells? Think of Rebecca, Isaac's wife. Think of the daughters of Midian when Moses came to their rescue. T...more
One of the best preparations for understanding the NT in light of the OT.
Seeing themes and patterns, language structures and idioms of Hebrew helps a ton in knowing Scripture.
This is a Good Read!
Seeing themes and patterns, language structures and idioms of Hebrew helps a ton in knowing Scripture.
This is a Good Read!
A great introduction to Old Testament Biblical Theology. This is also a good way to introduce people to the Jim Jordan style of reading.
Leithart's book was written as a resource for families to be used in their devotion times to tell the story of the OT and is equipped with study questions at the end of each chapter. But, don't underestimate the value of this resource just because it was written primarily as a devotional. I found the book to be refreshing and quite enlightening in tying together various themes and patterns of the OT. I'll have to admit that some of his typologies gave me pause for concern as to their veracity......more
Excellent. I once knew the answer to every single one of the 300+ study questions. Not anymore. I'm still waiting for Dr. Leithart's survey of the NT.
A great introduction to the Old Testament. My ten and eleven year old boys read it with profit.
Should be read annually.
Utilizes a Patristic form of recapitulatory hermeneutics.
OT as primarily about worship.
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Reading this with E. for an OT class. I loved the intro. It puts the OT in historical perspective and ties the stories together.
Terrific overview, with many pearls of wisdom.
Spot on. Highly useful. I'm glad I have to study it hard for a test.
This is a great overview of the narrative of Scripture, focused on explaining the Old Testament story. Great for young Christians who spend most of their time studying the New Testament or who find the OT difficult to read.
Excellent survey of the OT organized around the motif of the LORD building his house. Consistently Biblical with an emphasis on the unity of God's story.
This is a theologically sound overview of the Old Testament. It does very well to point out how Christ was always the main character of the Old Testament.
Excellent. A very helpful overview of the Old Testament. I'll be using this with the boys as they get older.
God works in wondrous ways through the pages of the Old Testament.
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