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This is certainly an introduction and it is hard to cover that much in such a short book about a very large number of books, but I think this was a little more perfunctory than I was hoping. Not bad, just not one of the amazing ones. I'll add, even though this was written by Jimmy Akin, I didn't get that sense while reading it, compared to others ones I've read by him. 1683571061 Basic introduction to the Old Testament. Addresses questions of style and why we have the books we have. 1683571061
