The Old Testament: A Reinterpretation

xiv, 264pp; two fold-out maps in rear. Blue cloth-covered boards; gilt titles on spine. 8vo. Sun-faded spine, lightly rubbed corners and spine ends. 3cm tear in cloth at front joint at spine head; boards cupping. Top text block edge dusty, remaining edges tanning and foxing. Endpapers starting to fox and tan. Previous owner's name and second owner's stamp on front free endpaper. Otherwise, internally neat, clean, bright and tight barring occasional spotting to margins. The Regis Professor of Hebrew at Cambridge argues that modern knowledge and modern needs call for a reinterpretation of the Bible. Includes a general index and an index to names plus attached.