Customer Reviews

Old Testament Story, The (7th Edition)

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The Story of Israel is one of the textbooks for the Old Testament Survey course I teach at the community college. Because background information is essential to understanding the environment into which these people came (though VERY unpopular to students!), Dr. Tullock writes a brief but informative section on background. It is long enough to set the stage, but short enough to keep the students interested in the course. In an effort to keep the book short, Dr. Tullock does not cover everything, but does a great job overviewing and explaining the important spots. I am pleased with this book and plan to continue using it for the courses I teach.

I had to use this textbook for a Hebrew History and Lit. class and it was a surprisingly easy read. Tullock does a great job painting a picture of what happened in history, and for those of us (me) who get easily confused when it comes to history (the whos, whats, and whens) I actually enjoyed reading it. It was like a novel.

I buy it for my Old testament class, it's very useful and a good book.

This is a very good book... the break down of each chapter is very helpful

I know some of us have to buy this for a class but this was ridiculous. The book restates scripture literally old testament section verse by verse (you can read the OT yourself) and then with extremly poor arguments tries to bring all of scripture into question. I never post reviews but this is just that bad.
I guess if you are an extreme liberal that did not believe that scripture was true it would be ok. As for me what a waste of my time and money.

This was a great deal. Beautiful condition and saved me a lot of money for my son's freshman class.

The Product:

-Quick delivery

-Perfect Condition

-GREAT PRICE. The college I attend wanted over $100!!! For the same book USED!

-The exact match to the ISBN number I used. pages correlate with campus text and pictures are in color.

OVERALL a great buy. Saved over 50% for a new book!

I had to buy this book for an Old Testament course. I had already taken Old Testament survey at a different college. However, the collage I am attending requires students to take their version of the course. Therefore, I was fairly well versed with the material considering that the first course was much more in-depth. The first course covered the liberal theories in Tullock's text but demonstrated their fatal flaws. Tullock does not follow that approach. He instead embraces the humanistic theories (seemingly ignorant of the flaws) and influences ignorant college students to distrust the Bible. I am keeping the book as an example of stupidity. I also can't with good conscience sell it to someone else. I would have given it zero stars if the option were available.

I was so greatful to get this book at such a good price. My college wanted about $30 more for it brand new. It is in like new condition, so I have no complaints at all.

We used this as a textbook in Old Testament Survey at Belmont - I suspect largely because the author had just retired from a professorship there. The book is well written, and accessible, but not particulary useful.

Tullock assumes the validity of the documentary hypothesis (as developed by Wellhausen et al.) and proceeds from there, which is a fatal flaw for two reasons: 1)The introductory student probably doesn't care about theories of composition and would be better served by spending more time becoming acquainted with the content and themes of the OT books; 2)Wellhausen's theories are deeply flawed, as many authors in the past century have pointed out (as an example, see Kline's Structure of Biblical Authority, which makes a compelling case that the form of Deuteronomy is that of an ancient treaty and only fits the milieu of the Mosaic period).

Skip this one.

Note: the above comments apply to the edition which was current in 1991. One hopes that Tullock has improved the book during the intervening decade.