THIS BOOK was written primarily for laymen. Its purpose is to introduce the Bible to the reader in something of the manner in which two scholars of the contemporary church present it to their students who are preparing for the Christian ministry. To be sure, many technical matters are omitted. The usual biblical introduction must concern itself in a technical way with the history, the text, and the canon of the Old and New Testaments. While these matters are here not ignored, they are nevertheless touched lightly, in order that the space may be used to depict the movement of biblical theology, the thoughts of believing men who sought to understand the ways of God and to proclaim those ways to their fellow men. Each writer treats his subject in an individual way, but on the whole they reflect the tendency of modern biblical scholarship to present the unity of the whole Bible in a somewhat different manner from that of the teachers on whose shoulders they stand. - from Amzon