Ancient Near Eastern Thought and the Old Testament: Introducing the Conceptual World of the Hebrew Bible

by John H. Walton

We need to read the Old Testament in the context of its own cultural river. We cannot afford to read instinctively because that only results in reading the text through our own cultural lenses.

The literature of the Old Testament never forthrightly refutes or undermines an ancient myth; it only lampoons or denies the power of the gods.

comparative study is a tool used in confessional contexts and likewise often pulls in a different direction than confessional scholarship has traditionally gone.