Invitation to the Torah
A Guide to Reading, Teaching, and Preaching the Pentateuch
Published on 10. July 2020
Book
Paperback/Softback
174 pages
978-1-7252-7749-6 (ISBN)
Description
We all love a good story. The Torah, or Pentateuch, is regularly defamed as ""law."" Actually, it's a saga about our search for happiness and how the God of the Bible fits into it. Lacing legal material into narrative punctuated with poetry, the Torah contrasts two provocative personalities named Abraham and Moses. Fascinating and fickle, their adventures portray two visions of approaching God. The Torah was written to render a verdict on who is the best model.
This book demonstrates that Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy are a unified narrative, framed as contrasting biographies, proclaiming a coherent message. It surveys each book's structure and themes to determine its argument and then articulates the Torah's message for people of all time, its vision of human happiness. It establishes that the Torah is the core of the Jewish and Christian Bibles and shows how the rest of the Bible elaborates its message. Ending with suggestions to help you read it, this book is your invitation to the Torah.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Eugene
United States
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Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 10 mm
Weight
262 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-7252-7749-6 (9781725277496)
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Invitation to the Torah
A Guide to Reading, Teaching, and Preaching the Pentateuch
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George Van Pelt Campbell is professor of biblical studies and sociology at Grove City College, Pennsylvania. His ThM in Old Testament is from Dallas Theological Seminary, and his PhD in religion and sociology is from the University of Pittsburgh. He is author of Everything You Know Seems Wrong about globalization's impact on culture and religion, and Invitation to the Torah.
Derek Van Pelt Campbell has been in pastoral ministry for seventeen years, currently serving the Latrobe Presbyterian Church in Latrobe, Pennsylvania. He earned an MDiv at Pittsburgh Theological Seminary and is currently pursuing a DMin through Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. Several years ago, he fell in love with the book of Deuteronomy when he spent an entire year preaching through it. He contributed, among other things, the chapter on Deuteronomy to Invitation to the Torah.