Review of: Skobelev M. A., Khangireev I. A. Introduction to the Didactic books of the Old Testament: a textbook. Moscow: Published by St. Tikhon’s Orthodox University Press, 2018. 368 p., illustrations. ISBN 978-5-7429-1073-2

Abstract

This year's textbook, Introduction to the Old Testament Study Books by M. A. Skobelev and I. A. Khangireyev, is a rather remarkable phenomenon in the mass of domestic and foreign literature on the Old Testament. Over the past century a huge number of studies and textbooks on the literature of Wisdom have been published in the West, so what prompted the authors to write another manual? The purpose of the latter is outlined at the very beginning of the preface. It is an "isagogical-exegetical survey of the Teachers' Books of the Old Testament", addressed to students of the Orthodox Svyato-Tikhonovsky University of Humanities, as well as to undergraduate students of theological schools. It is thought that it was the specificity of the intended reader that determined the qualitative difference between this edition and other books on these topics.