What People Are Saying

• “A balanced and richly informative introduction that covers essential critical and comparative perspectives and sets up pertinent interpretive issues, leaving the instructor free to work with the class in any number of directions. Using Collins’ textbook is like team-teaching with a master teacher. His tone is welcoming but often wry, accessible yet authoritative. This is a textbook written by someone who not only knows his students but who genuinely likes them – and likes to challenge them!”

  — Carol Newsom, Professor of Old Testament, Candler School of Theology

• “In a time of widespread biblical illiteracy, I can think of no one better qualified than John Collins, experienced teacher and scholar of texts both biblical and post-biblical, as guide through the Hebrew Bible for the beginning student. As a judicious, clear, and thoroughly up-to-date abridgement of his popular Introduction to the Hebrew Bible with CD-ROM, the present volume is invaluable for the undergraduate student, the seminarian, or the general reader interested in working through the biblical texts.”

  — Joseph Blenkinsopp, Professor Emeritus, Theology, University of Notre Dame

• “John Collins’ Introduction to the Hebrew Bible with CD-ROM (2004) was a timely and welcome contribution. . . . To now have A Short Introduction to the Hebrew Bible in a format fashioned especially for the undergraduate course is most welcome, as it can be difficult to incorporate a larger introductory textbook into such a course which already requires a large amount of reading in the Bible itself.”

  — James VanderKam, John A. O’Brien Professor of Hebrew Scriptures, University of Notre Dame