DISCOVERING THE OLD TESTAMENT
By Alec Motyer
Crossway Books. 208 pages. £4.99
ISBN 978-18-5684-226-6
Why bother with the Old Testament? Because Jesus did, says the author. To be like him we must get into the Old Testament and understand how it links with and feeds into the New. Too many treat it as a collection of stories with morals or as another country where different spiritual rules apply.
The book began as a series of magazine articles with a grounding in the author’s theology lectures. Romanised Hebrew words appear regularly. The first section (four chapters) deals with the unity of the Bible. It shows, for example, that grace followed by obedience is the pattern of the whole Bible.
