Yancey teaches us in this book how essential it is that we spend time reading and understanding the Old Testament. It is God’s biography. He uses lessons from Job, Moses, the Psalms, the Prophets and others to help us recognize our own world today in these stories of old. It was the bible that Jesus read, quoted from and used to settle arguments with his antagonists. Yancey states, “After spending time exploring the Old Testament, I can truthfully say that I come away more astonished, not less” An excellent book!