The Bible Jesus Read

by Philip Yancey

• ISBN13: 9780310245667
• ISBN10: 0310245664
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-02-01
• Publisher: Zondervan

Summary

Philip Yancey has a way of confronting our most cherished but misguided notions about faith. In "The Bible Jesus Read", he 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. Yancey admits that, like many Christians, he usually avoided the Old Testament. After all, why bother with writings that can be so baffling, boring, even offensive to the modern mind? But a surprising discovery awaited Yancey when he began to explore how the Old Testament related to his life today. 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."

Author Biography

Philip Yancey serves as editor-at-large for Christianity Today magazine. He has written twelve Gold Medallion Award winners, including Where Is God When It Hurts? Disappointment with God, and The Gift of Pain. His books The Jesus I Never Knew and What's So Amazing About Grace? were also awarded the Christian Book of the Year. He is also the author of Reaching for the Invisible God

Table of Contents

Preface	9	(8)
Is the Old Testament Worth the Effort?	17	(28)
Job: Seeing in the Dark	45	(30)
Deuteronomy: A Taste of Bittersweet	75	(34)
Psalms: Spirituality in Every Key	109	(34)
Ecclesiastes: The End of Wisdom	143	(28)
The Prophets: God Talks Back	171	(28)
Advance Echoes of a Final Answer	199	(22)
About the Author	221