Bible Jesus Read, The

This book provides a great inroduction to the Old Testament. I thought every section was good, but particularly the chapters on Job, Deuteronomy and Ecclesiastes.

I found this book very readable - helpful in understanding some of the old testament and it's implications for us.

Philip Yancey, in his usual clear style, looks at some of the books of the Old Testament. He explains why he thinks it's important for Christians to read them; he also gives an overview of what they're about. Different chapters cover Job, Deuteronomy, Psalms, Ecclesiastes, and the prophets in general.

Interesting and well worth reading, though not particularly deep or inspiring. Recommended.

I did not finish this book. When I started to read the chapter on Deuteronomy I was very disappointed with the Biblical inaccuracies. The author says that Moses was almost deaf and blind whereas the Bible says distinctly (Deuteronomy 34:7) "Moses was a hundred and twenty years old when he died, yet his eyes were not weak nor his strength gone" I have no problem with poetic licence but I do if it goes directly against what is in the Scriptures.
If he takes licence with the Scriptures in this way I am very hesitant to continue to read this book.

As New Testament Christians, it is often difficult for us to remain very long in a study of an Old Testament book. But Jesus, the founder of the New Covenant, lived out of the Old Testament. Having a proper understanding of the same texts that Jesus lived by is essential to the live of the modern-day Christian. A worth-while read.

I am guilty of focusing on mostly the New Testament because the OT overwhelms me. This book really helps with that problem!

As the reader of this document could tell, I like reading Yancey and Grisham. I don’t know what that says about me at this point in my life, but here is the latest Yancey I’ve read. It would be an overstatement to say that this book was the same quality as The Jesus I Never Knew, Disappointment With God, Where is God When it Hurts, and What’s so Amazing about Grace. In many ways this was a frustrating read. Perhaps that is the reason it took me over a year and six months to finish it. But I was determined to finish it and I did. A more appropriate title should be “The Struggle Phillip Yancey Has with making Sense out of the Old Testament. This is not his best work. I learned from this book but it was disjointed in places and in some areas had absolutely nothing to do with the Old Testament. The most important chapters were the chapters on the Prophets and on the book of Job. I have many statements underlined in these chapters, mainly phrases I agree with. Here are a few of the good quotes:
Job prefers to live with an agonizing paradox, that God still loves him even though all evidence points against it. He further asserts that Job’s logic is: Suffering comes from God, God is just, I am innocent rather than the friend perspective, “I am guilty”

“Job teaches, though, that we need faith most at the precise moment when it seems impossible.” P. 63

also:

“Job convinces me that God cares more about our faith than about our pleasure” He does provide a helpful list of assumptions relative to the idea of the problem of suffering, here they are:

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I loved learning about the "imprecatory psalms." I read this book several years ago, yet that section comes back to me when I need it.

I'm glad I took my time with this one, it was worth it. I guess I'll have to give it back to Les now, huh?

Great help with understanding the old testament in the midst of common questions that stump me and make me shy away from reading it. I really enjoyed it