From the Back Cover
Charts provide visual organization that is ideal for teaching, learning, and review. Facts, connections, parallels, and contrasts can be grasped easily at a glance. This revised edition of Chronological and Background Charts of the Old Testament includes 42 new charts and 18 revised charts. The charts cover historical, literary, archaeological, and theological aspects of the Old Testament, its background, and biblical studies. Among the 100 charts are: – Genealogies . . . – Comparative Ancient Near-Eastern Chronology – Parallels between Law and Wisdom The Kings of Judah and Israel . . . – Treaty Format and Biblical Covenants – Dynasties of the Northern Kingdom . . . – Principles for Word Studies – Messages of the Pre-Exilic Minor Prophets . . . – Angel of the Lord in the Old Testament
About the Author
John H. Walton (PhD, Hebrew Union College) is professor emeritus of Old Testament at Wheaton College Graduate School. He is the author or coauthor of numerous books, including Old Testament Today, with Andrew E. Hill; volumes on Job and Genesis in the NIV Application Commentary series; the six-volume Lost World series; and Genesis 1 as Ancient Cosmology. He was also coeditor, with Craig Keener, of the ECPA 2017 Bible of the Year winner, the NIV Cultural Backgrounds Study Bible.