The Hebrew Bible for Beginners: A Jewish and Christian Introduction Format:Paperback ISBN-13: 978-1535935029

ISBN-13: 978-1535935029

The extensive commentary by David Rankine and Paul Harry Barron emphasises the place of the Psalms within the Grimoire tradition detailing their extensive apotropaic amuletic and coercive uses in works such as the Book of Abramelin the Key of Solomon and the Goetia

ISBN-10: 1424549574

Revised Bilingual edition (February 1 2015)

The Hebrew Bible for Beginners: A Jewish and Christian Introduction Format:Paperback ISBN-13: 978-1535935029An engaging introduction showing how the Hebrew Bible forms faith then and now. Introductions to the Hebrew Bible (or Old Testament) tend toward extensive scholarly discussion with little to introduce the student to the tremendous influence this seminal collection has had on contemporary society or to the complexities of reading ancient religious literature today. Further few books if any discuss the differing ways Jews and Christians approach this