Hello,
This summer, the group read Philip Yancey's "The Bible Jesus Read". In this book,Yancey looks at the Hebrew Scripture–what Christians call the Old Testament, which served as the "Bible Jesus read" and focuses on the books of Job, Deuteronomy, the Psalms, Ecclesiastes, and the books of the Prophets. He writes about different aspects of these Old Testament books and stories of God's compassionate encounters with people.
Philip Yanceygives readers a better understanding of God and His relationship with us and also encouragesus to consider how the Old Testament is relevant to their own lives.
As I read this book, it gave me a fresh understanding and appreciation of God's love for His people. Although I found some of Yancey's analysis interesting and challenging, I felt the title of the book was somewhat misleading as the book was actually an analysis of selected books of the Old Testament.
Nevertheless, this is a great book for everyone looking for an understanding of how the Old Testament is relevant to his or her own personal relationship with Jesus Christ.
I highly recommend this book for reading.
Kind regards,
Ope
Ope
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Synopsis
The Old Testament
is God's biography, the story of his passionate encounters with people and also
a prequel to the story of Jesus. This book explores the sometimes shocking and
cryptic writings in an effort to know God better.
In The Bible Jesus Read, Philip Yancey challenges the perception that
the New Testament is all that matters and the Old Testament isn’t worth taking
the time to read and understand. As he began to explore how the Old Testament
related to his life today, he discovered that those seemingly irrelevant Hebrew
Scriptures took on a startling immediacy, portraying a passionate relationship
between God and people against the broad backdrop of human experience.
Like nothing else, the Old Testament depicts the cries, the complaints,
the deep, insistent questionings of the heart, the stuff of life we all must
contend with. With his candid, signature style, Yancey interacts with the Old
Testament from the perspective of his own deeply personal journey.
From Moses, the amazing prince of Egypt, to the psalmists’ turbulent
emotions and the prophets’ oddball rantings, Yancey paints a picture of
Israel’s God--and ours--that fills in the blanks of a solely New Testament
vision of the Almighty. Probing some carefully selected Old Testament
books--Job, Deuteronomy, Psalms, Ecclesiastes, and the Prophets--Yancey reveals
how the Old Testament deals in astonishing depth and detail with the issues
that trouble us most.
The Old Testament in fact tackles what the New Testament often only
skirts. But that shouldn’t surprise us. It is, after all, the Bible Jesus read.
The Bible Jesus Read will give you abundant new insights into the heart of God
the Father. And as you read with a fresh eye the prayers, poems, songs, and
bedtime stories that Jesus so revered, you will gain a profound new
understanding of Christ. 'The more we comprehend the Old Testament,' Yancey
writes, 'the more we comprehend Jesus.'
