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Anderson's Understanding the Old Testament is a solid, college level introduction to the history of the Hebrew nation and what became that part of their scriptures assimilated into the later Christian canon. I read it because we hadn't used a textbook for the introductory courses in either college or seminary. Indeed, now that I think of it, hardly any of my courses at either school used textbooks, the notable exception being the undergraduate course 'Educational Psychology'. Still, this one isn't bad. The author is a Methodist, but he avoids, so far as I can see, Christian sectarianism and makes efforts not to offend possible Jewish readers--though not enough to avoid the use of "Old Testament".
Since this book was never assigned, I read it on a break from seminary. In fact, I read a good deal of it while in Boston visiting my old college friend Rick Strong, a bassist who would take me along to his various performances. The particular venue most memorably occupied by the reading of this text was some dimly lit Polynesian dinner club where I partook of--forgive the phonetic spelling--"a flaming poo-poo platter".