Book Review: The Heart of the Old Testament

Book Review: The Heart of the Old Testament

Introduction

This paper reviews the book “The Heart of the Old Testament” written by Ronald Youngblood. This book provided the reader a broad and inclusive of the Scriptures. The author also assessed the classical beliefs of the bible, which highlighted that the strongest and effective stance of this book. The coherent and well-articulated nature of this book emphasized on the core beliefs of the Old Testament.

The book also demonstrated that the human must respond and demonstrate the principle of sacrifice in their lives. The Bible illustrated the concept of human sacrifice at many places, which was also common among neighbor of Israel. On the other hand, humans must follow the commandments of God. Briefly, this book offered a great insight and created a bridge between the Old and New Testament (Youngblood, 1998).

Discussion and Analysis

I personally observed that Ronald Youngblood successfully incorporated nine main biblical themes. This book revolved around the concepts of monotheism, sovereignty, election, covenant, theocracy, law, sacrifice faith, and redemption. All these themes are presented in an excellent flow that grasps the attention of the reader throughout the book. Youngblood wrote the book in simple words so that everyone can read and understand so that the reader has a clear interpret the God's Word by reading this single book. The book “The Heart of the Old Testament” takes in hand the key concepts of the Old Testament. All the chapters in this book were effectively tied together and addressed the classical beliefs of the Old Testament. In this book, the first concept addressed was monotheism. Monotheism illustrates the oneness of God (Youngblood, 1998).

This book gives a detailed description about the creation of the world and the life of early people. It is necessary to read the scriptures in order to understand the life of Jesus since everything is revealed in this testament. After going through this testament, a person's faith will become stronger since a detailed prophecy of what is about to happen is presented in the various books of the testament.

Furthermore, my analysis over the book helped me to reveal that Youngblood presented the notion of monotheism with the help of different cultures examples to highlight the supremacy of God, as well as offered comparison to other cultural beliefs, such as polytheism, animism and monolatry. Such aspects of this book made it unswerving ...