The Epic of Eden
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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.
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This book does an excellent job of explaining the culture, time, and place of the Old Testament, and organizing it in a way that is easy to understand “big picture” of the Bible as a whole. I particularly found it useful to learn about typology as a method of interpreting and understanding the Bible.
The writing was easy to understand for such an academic book, and I appreciated the in depth footnotes and references (mostly to secondary sources). I didn't have trouble following along. I also felt she presents certain theological disagreements in a fair way.
