The Cambridge Companion to the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament COM075000 is at home and at

is at home and at his best in this "lucid and heartbreaking" award-winning collection (The Guardian)

and a mysterious dead body in the woods

on Capitol Hill

Everywhere in this collection are powerful psychological portraits of characters whose unarticulated hopes and fears betray the never-ending presence of the past in their present lives

a fight he does not want

The Cambridge Companion to the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament COM075000 is at home and atThis Companion offers a concise and engaging introduction to the Hebrew Bible or Old Testament. Providing an up to date 'snapshot' of scholarship, it includes essays, specially commissioned for this volume, by twenty three leading scholars. The volume examines a range of topics, including the historical and religious contexts for the contents of the biblical canon, and critical approaches and methods, as well as newer topics such as the Hebrew Bible