People of the Covenant: An Invitation to the Old Testament

Ancestors, judges, kings, prophets, priests, wise ones and mysterious figures are the categories of Old Testament characters that Dianne Bergant groups together in People of the Covenant: An Invitation to the Old Testament. (A final category, ""People Who Moved the Tradition Forward,"" includes a rather motley assortment of other folks who don't fit neatly into the above classifications.) Bergant's fine introduction to the Old Testament is essentially a character study more than a narrative history and makes a valuable companion to the Roman Catholic Bible on which it is based. (The Roman Catholic canon includes six more Old Testament books than the Protestant canon.) ( May)