What's the best way to read the Old Testament?

In fact, given some of the ethical challenges and other challenges that arise in the

Old Testament, should we read it at all? Well, these are just a few of the questions we're going to explore today with our guest,

Dr. Dominic Hernandez, a colleague of ours at Taubis School of Theology.

You're the author of a new book, which I read all the way through and thoroughly

enjoyed is called Engaging the Old Testament. We're going to dive into that. I'm your

host Sean McDowell. I'm your co-host Scott Ray. This is Think Biblically. Dr. Hernandez, I'm curious, what motivated

you to write a book and it's a long book and I mean that I can tell you spent a lot of time probing

into this trying to help Christians understand and read the

Old Testament well. Why spend probably years of your life I imagine writing this book?

Well gentlemen thank you for having me. When I became a believer in

Jesus in my teenage years and then started reading the Bible lots as I went to

mostly my college years.

There were a couple of things.

I realized that I fell in love with the Word of God

and started going to churches that would say things like the

Bible is the very word of God and I actually believe that. But as I progressed in

my in my studies I eventually found my way to a school of ministry.

And at the school ministry we studied much more Greek than Hebrew, even though I was

learning much more about our doctrine of scripture, and that is we believe that the entirety of the

Bible was the word of God.

We believe that Jesus' red letters on the pages of the New Testament were equally as

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